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Looking for Calvin and Hobbes by Nevin Martell

by Josh Indar

[10.Nov.09] :. The creator of the universally-beloved Calvin and Hobbes was a perfectionist and a true believer in his art form, yet he hated the fame that his creations brought him.

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Ayn Rand and the World She Made

by Diane Leach

[9.Nov.09] :. Ayn Rand set out to remake reality as if it were an ill-fitting dress: by sheer will, she tried to fashion a Balenciaga gown from a housedress.

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The Supremes by Mark Ribowsky

by Mike Garrett

[29.Jul.09] :. Without these players actually telling the story firsthand, it starts to read a bit like a Wikipedia entry.

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The Chris Farley Show by Tom Farley & Tanner Colby

by Michael Buening

[16.Jul.09] :. A complex community of personalities radiates around the main subject and a detailed, varied portrait inevitably appears.

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Becoming Bucky Fuller by Loretta Lorance, R. Buckminster Fuller

by Mike Pursley

[20.May.09] :. This post-millennium rediscovery examines Fuller anew, seeking help with our most dire ecological and economic challenges within his philosophy of sustainability and technological balance.

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John Zorn by John Brackett

by Michael Patrick Brady

[28.Jan.09] :. One must be willing to risk being consumed by the dark, cabalistic world Zorn has created around his art.

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Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King by Foster Hirsch

by David Cohen [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[12.Nov.07] :. When you're referred to as "Otto the Terrible" for much of your life, it's hard to posthumously become "Otto the Great."

 

Slowhand’s autobiography: Sex, drugs and boredom

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[23.Oct.07] :. So who knew Eric Clapton was such a bore? OK, maybe everybody who bought his last few albums or saw him on his last world tour, which had all the fire and spontaneity of a Fred Thompson...

 

Nureyev: The Life by Julie Kavanagh

by Moira Macdonald [The Seattle Times (MCT)]

[11.Oct.07] :. Kavanagh's Nureyev: The Life, though meticulously researched and often gracefully written, never quite finds the man behind that mystique.

 

The Preacher and the Presidents by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy

by John Mark Eberhart [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[14.Sep.07] :. The result is a hypnotic read about the turbulent nature of public life.

 

Convicted press baron Conrad Black admits timing tough on Nixon biography release

by Susan Chandler [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[15.Aug.07] :. It’s an awkward time to launch a book—a few weeks before being sentenced for fraud and obstruction of justice. Yet it may also be a welcome distraction for Conrad Black, the disgraced...

 

Women Who Write by Stefan Bollmann

by Megan Milks

[10.Aug.07] :. The category "women who write" has been interpreted in its broadest sense, to refreshing effect.

 

The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story by Frances Kiernan

by Paula Marantz Cohen [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[7.Jun.07] :. The old elite was not morally superior to the new, but its members carried themselves better. If you want to know more about them, read Edith Wharton.