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Books
Monday, December 14 2009
By Josh Indar
If the goal is to provide a biographical sketch for the casual fan and some eye candy to peruse while getting high and listening to Funhouse, this easily succeeds.
By Michael Harrington
A collection of previously unpublished works that Vonnegut wrote in the '50s or thereabouts.
Friday, December 11 2009
By Michael E. Ross
Pearce’s book illuminates the power of play and the impact of culture, and puts a spin on our perception of the immigrant experience.
By Jeremy Estes
In costume, men retain their adult status, e.g., Batman and Superman. But their female counterparts, no matter how well suited-up for battle, are always 'girls'.
Thursday, December 10 2009
By Rachel Balik
Part stand-up routine and part autobiography, Susie Essman offers her unfettered opinion on how to live and laugh while you're doing it.
By Rene Rodriguez
Not even The Stand had so many major characters come to gruesome ends.
Wednesday, December 9 2009
By Alan Ashton-Smith
The areas from which Camera Lucida is approached are pleasingly varied, ranging from psychoanalysis to Buddhism, and figures such as Freud, Benjamin and Proust are brought into play.
By Dan DeLuca
Just as Dostoyevsky did in critiquing a Russia that looked outward to Europe rather than inward to find its soul, Pamuk portrays an upper class that takes its cues from the West, while threatening to dislodge itself from its native culture.
Tuesday, December 8 2009
By Nicholas DeRenzo
If Padgett Powell's new book is a novel, in some Dada sense of the word, it looks awfully similar to a list.
By Linda Winer
A lively if somewhat arbitrary history about the hero behind so much of what we know as modern American theater.
Monday, December 7 2009
By Robert Loss
This is another dilemma of postmodern realism in fiction: the culture which insists that everything is important saturates the form of the novel itself.
By Mike Leary
Fall of the Wall, 1989: A brilliant account of a Europe transformed.
Friday, December 4 2009
By Paul Hiebert
Chabon's conservative leanings are couched, perhaps paradoxically, in a hope that all children will develop into liberated adults.
By Carolyn W. Fanelli
If you’ve ever wondered how you might experience Afghanistan, then this is the book for you.
Thursday, December 3 2009
By Lara Killian
Rural Alaska provides the setting for emotional struggles between family members as violence, alcoholism, and economic hardship rock a small Inuit community.
By Rachel Balik
Through simple language and basic analogies, Krugman manages the great feat of explaining how money works in a vacuum, and how it has worked for us in the past 20 years.
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Wednesday, December 2 2009
By Michael E. Ross
Imus traffics in the tropes of hip-hop and black culture in general on an occasional, selective basis -- a cafeteria approach to cultural exploration as obvious as it is insincere.
Tuesday, November 24 2009
By John Carvill
Every corner of this book is filled with characterful touches. You can look, but you will not find this level of writing in any other Beatles book.
By PopMatters Staff
Bestselling author Sandra Brown chats about her weep-inducing, wavering confidence and advises that one should be wary of hiring a discount hit man.
Monday, December 7 2009
By L.B. Jeffries
Philip K. Dick’s fiction is a defense of the validity of video games because despite the fact that they are not real, his stories argue that there is still something valid in the artificial.
(more Moving Pixels)
Thursday, December 3 2009
By Jennifer Makowsky
A scene shows Ryder blissfully tying up the manuscript and putting a rose under the string. That's rather like what Armstrong and the screenwriters did to the film: tied it up neatly with a pretty flower.
(more The Box Office Belletrist)
Tuesday, November 24 2009
By Chris Justice
Even anglers like myself yearn for guides with fishing IQs as rich as Squanto's, a Patuxet Native American who taught the Pilgrims how to fish.
(more The Tackle Box)
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