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Raymond Carver: New Books On His Stories And Life

The New York Times | Stephen King | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Raymond Carver Stories, Book Review, Stephen King, Gordon Lish, Carol Sklenicka, Authors, New Books, Books, Raymond Carver a Writer's Life, Raymond Carver, Carver, Books News

It's as a chronicle of Carver's growth as a writer that Sklenicka's book is invaluable, particularly after his career path crossed that of the editor ...

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My Review of Sarah Palin's New Book Going Rogue Without Actually Having Read It

Beth Armogida | Posted 11.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Book Reviews, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Memoir, John McCain, Sarah Palin Memoir, Book Review, Going Rogue, Sarah Palin, Comedy News
Beth Armogida

If anything, Going Rogue shows how a woman from a small town in Alaska can go from burning books to writing them.

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A Sneak Peek At New Books

Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Alexander McCall Smith, Under the Dome, Barbara Kingsolver, Barbara Kingsolver the Lacuna, Sunday Book Review, The Lacuna, Stephen King, The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, Books, Mary Karr Lit, Lit, Book Review, Samuel Johnson, Book Reviews, Stephen King Under the Dome, Mary Karr, China, David Nokes, Books News

This week, the book review round-up includes some reviews from insider journals Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and Booklist, which often get the scoop on n...

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What's Next For Jonathan Safran Foer And Eating Animals?

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Natalie Portman, Animal Cruelty, Everything Is Illuminated, Book Reviews, Natalie Portman Eating Animals, Eating Meat, Agriculture, New Books, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Free Range, Jonathan Safran Foer, Vegetarian, Book Review, Vegetarianism, Eating Animals, Food Politics, Safran Foer Eating Animals, Books, Farming, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Factory Farms, Bestsellers, Books News

Beginning the week of October 26, 2009, we ran a series of reviews on HuffPost Books on Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, Eating Animals. It was a surp...

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Book Review Round-Up

Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Anne Rice, Vollman, Books, Writing, Eoin Colfer, Douglas Adams, Harold Evans, New Books, Tobias Hill, Book Review, Daniel Goldhagen, Book Reviews, Lee Eisenberg, Memoir, Jason Epstein, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Books News

Here it is, your weekly book review round-up: Eating, Jason Epstein The New York Times The book is delicious, in its minimalist, essayistic way. But...

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Orhan Pamuk's New Book, The Museum of Innocence

The New York Review of Books | Pico Iyer | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Authors, The Museum of Innocence, Museum of Innocence, Istanbul, Ohan Pamuk, Turkish Authors, Book Review, Turkey, Books, Eastern Europe, Snow, Orhan Pamuk Snow, Orhan Pamuk Museum of Innocence, New Orhan Pamuk Book, Pamuk, Nyr, Books News

Secret Love in the Lost City Pico Iyer The New York Review of Books The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Maureen...

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No Evidence of Kellerman's Talent In His Latest Novel

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books

Read More: Eco-Terrorists, Murder Mystery, Jonathan Kellerman, Alex Delaware, Jonathan-Kellerman Review, Book Review, Mystery Novel, Kellerman Review, Books News
Jackie K. Cooper

In Evidence, the step by step solving of the murders is so procedural it borders on boring. Where is the inventiveness that was there at the start of this series?

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Book Review Round-Up

Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

Read More: Superfreakonomics, Sunday Book Review, Chuck Klosterman, Book Review, Book Reviews, Dracula, John Irving, The Humbling, Books, Dorothea Lange, Philip Roth, Neverland, Books News

We're back again with your weekly book review round-up: Neverland: J. M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers and the Dark Side of "Peter Pan", Piers Dudgeon The...

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Astrology & Politics, Washington's New Odd Couple

Virginia Bell | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

Read More: Birth Charts, Book Review, Politics, September 11, Jessica Murray, Astrology, Books, Pluto, America, Books News
Virginia Bell

Even if you are not a fan of astrology you can't easily dismiss Ms. Murray; her book is well researched and well written; she is politically astute, and deeply passionate about America.

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Book Review Round-Up

Posted 10.19.2009 | Books

Read More: They Knew Then, Sunday Book Review, Book Review, Book Reviews, Half-Broke Horses, The Wild Things, Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw, Stripping Bare the Body, Books, Chronic City, Lydia Davis, Spooner, Books News

Your weekly book review round-up: The Wild Things, Dave Eggers The San Francisco Chronicle The reader knows from the picture book how the story will...

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Book Review Round-Up

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Joyce Carol Oates, Book Review, Book Reviews, Richard Dawkins, Dan Chaon, The Lost Symbol, R. Crumb, Books, The Good Soldiers, Dan Brown, Nobel Prize, Books News

A lot of the New York Times reviews were repeats this week, but, nonetheless, we bring you the weekend book review round-up. The Lost Symbol, Dan Bro...

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UPDATE: Book Review Round-Up

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: A Fiery Peace in a Cold War, The Clinton Tapes, Book Review, Juliet Naked, Nocturnes, Books, Ishiguro, Wizard of Oz, Book Reviews, Blame, Led Zeppelin, A New Literary History of America, Twisted Tree, Circles in the Sky, Books News

Conventional and obscure, mixed platform and high literature, there was an interesting mix of books being reviewed around the web this week: The Chil...

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Look at the Birdie: A Review of Kurt Vonnegut's New Book

Bryan Young | Posted 10.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Book Reviews, Vonnegut, Look at the Birdie, Armageddon in Retrospect, Welcome to the Monkeyhouse, Book Review, Kurt Vonnegut, Media News
Bryan Young

The biggest problem is that each of the 14 stories in this collection are all classic Vonnegut, handcrafted to perfection by a master storyteller, and deserve your full attention.

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Family Fun and Fitness

Peter Clothier | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Book Review, Childhood Nutrition, Diet, Health Care, Nutrition, Childhood Obesity, Knute Keeling, Michelle Obama Garden, Pregnancy, Obama Smoking Habit, Pre-Pregnancy, Living News
Peter Clothier

We are reminded by the current debate about health care that we are, as a nation, doing a pretty poor job of taking care of the bodies we have been given to inhabit for the course of our earthly lives.

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HuffPost Review: Half the Sky

Bill Gates, Sr. | Posted 11.14.2009 | World

Read More: Sheryl WuDunn, Books, Nicholas Kristof, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Bill Gates Senior, Half the Sky, Nick Kristoff, Book Review, World News
Bill Gates, Sr.

What Nick Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn have done is lay out a case for why empowering women in the developing world is both morally right and strategically imperative.

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War and Pieces: A Review of Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows

Adrienne Celt | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Literature, Iraq War, Politics, Colonialism, Nagasaki, Book Review, Cia, Pakistan, Orange Prize for Fiction, Pakistani Literature, Novels, Globalization, India, Atomic Bomb, Burnt Shadows, Living News
Adrienne Celt

The book is complex and sweeping in scope, seeking to tie together not just the disparate lives of its inhabitants, but also several of the most noted international tragedies in recent history.

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Sex, Adventure, and Plant Hunting

Maria Rodale | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Book Review, Organic Gardening, Gardening, Books, Organic-Gardening, Living News
Maria Rodale

The very plants in our own gardens have many stories to tell, if we are willing to listen.

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Summertime When the Friendships Comes Easy

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Making Friends, Friend, Living News, Young Women, Young Adult, Homesickness, Julie Kraut, Delacorte Press, Friendship by the Book, Irene S. Levine, Breaking News, Book Review, Camp, Friendship, Summer, Teen, Female, Slept Away, Laney Parker, Summertime, Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

My conversation with Julie Kraut on her new book dealing with the nearly universal camper affliction: homesickness.

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Review: Before Wilde: Sex Between Men in Britain's Age of Reform

Larry Kramer | Posted 07.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Homosexuality, Before Wilde: Sex Between Men in Britain's Age of Reform, Larry Kramer, Charles Upchurch, Book Review, Entertainment News
Larry Kramer

This is a very important book. It may even be a historic book, one with which gay history can arm itself with more sufficient factual veracity as to start vanquishing at last the devil known as queer studies.

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Lily Burana's All-American Odyssey: From Pole Dancer to Army Wife

David Henry Sterry | Posted 06.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Iraq War, Military, And Other Battles, Book Review, Lily Burana, War, Strip City, I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, Stripper, Army Wife, Entertainment News
David Henry Sterry

Ms. Burana shows us how she has evolved into someone who can straddle that fine line between her new patriotic Army Wife self, and her tell-it-like-it-is Punk Protester Pole Dancer self.

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Some Very Un-Joyous Sex

Cory Silverberg | Posted 04.12.2009 | Style

Read More: Joy of Sex, Sex Books, Book Review, Style News
Cory Silverberg

The original Joy of Sex is 280 pages of tired double entendres broken up occasionally with soft core photos and suggestive illustrations of young white people having sex.

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Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream (Austin, Texas: PearlGate Publishing 2008) 192 pp.

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Joe the Plumber, Milton Friedman, Ann Coulter, Dick Morris, Michael Gallagher, George W. Bush, Conservatism, Wurzelbacher, Conservative, Jude Wanniski, David Brooks, Margaret Thatcher, Alan Bloom, Leo Strauss, The Huffington Post, Republican Party, Lord Acton, Plumber, MIchael Barone, Norman Podhoretz, William F. Buckley Jr., President Barack Obama, Stephen Moore, Wurzelbacharian Historicism, F.A. Hayek, Book Review, Sean Hannity, "Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream" Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Conservatives, Bill O'Reilly, Arthur Laffer, PearlGate Publishing, The Daily Kos, Plumbing, Wurzelbacherism, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

Wurzelbacher's deep understanding of the intellectual umbilical cords of modern conservatism is why Mike Gallagher and Sean Hannity have offered their high praise of his work.

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The New Required Reading: "Dreams From My Father"

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 01.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Hawaii, Memoir, Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Kenya, Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father, Books, Book Review, Media News
Erik Lundegaard

This is a book that echoes. Barack's father, in a letter to his 10-year-old son, tells him, "Like water finding its level, you will find a career that suits you."

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The Book Babes Talk First-Time Authors, Joe the Plumber and Shameless Self Promotion

Margo Hammond and Ellen Heltzel | Posted 12.26.2008 | Media

Read More: Political Books, Book Publishing, Publishing Companies, First Time Author, Obama, Thomas Tabback, The Book Babes, Book Review, Book Critic, Between the Covers, Christian Booksellers Association, Joe the Plumber, Reading Pleasures, Ellen Hetzel, Promoting a First Book, Reading, Margo Hammond, Tony Dungy, Media News
Margo Hammond and Ellen Heltzel

I totally relate to Joe's desire to stay in the public's eye for more than his 15 minutes of fame. He says he turned down lucrative offers and went with a smaller publisher to spread the wealth.

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The Professors' Wives' Club: An interview with Joanne Rendell

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Joanne Rendell, Wives, Manhattan U, Living News, Relationships, The Wednesday Sisters, Work-Life Balance, Female Friendships, Friendship by the Book, Book Review, Novel, The Friday Night Knitting Club, The Professors’ Wives’ Club, University, Intergenerational Friendships, Infidelity, Homosexuality, Washington Square, Faculty, Sisterhood, Homeschooling, Friendship Circles, Nyu, Moms, New York University, Domestic Abuse, Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

In this breakout first novel, Joanne Rendell creates powerful characters struggling to define their roles as women and an engaging plot that keeps you glued until the end.

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