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Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life by Michael Greenberg

by Christel Loar

[7.Oct.09] :. Greenberg's New York lives and breathes (and sometimes stinks) like a larger than life hero.

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Hella Nation by Evan Wright

by Rachel Balik

[26.May.09] :. Wright’s gift is his ability to trace a story through time and weave together a piece that is chilling in both subtlety and revelation.

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Reality TV by Susan Murray, Laurie Ouellette

by Siobhan Welch

[19.May.09] :. Those who fail to meet the American dream or moral code, whether it’s remodeling the house, winning the contest, or getting the man, are authors of their own demise.

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Dispatches from the Religious Left by Frederick Clarkson (ed)

by Justin Cober-Lake

[22.Jan.09] :. Losing the religious element in the discussions limits the power of this practical introduction to the affairs of the Religious Left.

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Eat, Memory by Amanda Hesser

by Carolyn W. Fanelli

[26.Nov.08] :. When Heidi Julavits shares her longing for "a trashy American sweet" while teaching English in Japan, I recall how my teeth literally ached for crusty bread during six rice-ridden months in China.

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The Way We Will Be 50 Years from Today, by Mike Wallace

by Olly Zanetti

[19.Nov.08] :. As it becomes clear, 'we' means middle class and broadly conservative Americans; and by 'the world' Wallace evidently means the United World of America.

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Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung

by David Pullar

[8.Jul.08] :. Anyone who has been bullied or excluded or felt that their family is weird will identify with many of these stories.

Rightward Bound by Bruce J. Schulman, Julian E. Zelizer (Editors)

by Christopher Martin

[21.Apr.08] :. Jacobs writes that the [1973-74 energy] crisis ultimately taught “conservative reformers a valuable lesson: fighting liberalism is hard”.

Living Blue in the Red States by David Starkey

by Andy Fogle

[26.Nov.07] :. The best of these essays acknowledge the false dichotomy of red and blue, confront personal biases, and outline the disillusionment of the left at both the right and itself.

Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James

by Michael Buening

[13.Nov.07] :. At times his assumption of equal intelligence with the reader is flattering and laughable.

(Not That You Asked) by Steve Almond

by Michael Keefe

[4.Sep.07] :. Steve Almond is a typical American guy (well, perhaps aside from caring about books and the fate of the human race, anyway).

Confronting the New Conservatism by Michael J. Thompson [Editor]

by Vince Carducci

[13.Aug.07] :. It makes for worthy if sometimes scary reading as the United States slouches toward the 2008 election.

American Food Writing by Molly ONeill [Editor]

by Erika Nanes

[2.Aug.07] :. Any food lover will tell you that to learn about a culture, one can do no better than to pull up a chair and pick up a fork.

The Gangster Film Reader by Alain Silver and James Ursini [Eds]

by David Sterritt

[25.Jul.07] :. In an age when gangsters have given way to gangstas, it's refreshing to find a book that takes the older breed seriously.

At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman

by Margaria Fichtner [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[29.Jun.07] :. Fadiman's essays may start out as handshakes, but they quickly distill into murmurs floating across the table during a long afternoon squandered over Earl Grey and blueberry scones.

At the Same Time by Susan Sontag

by Marc Andreottola

[6.Jun.07] :. There's an exciting pressure here for artists and writers alike to shake up the status quo, to go under attack.