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Book Review Round-Up

Posted 11.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Eva Hoffman, Obamanos, New Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov, Devil's Dream, Sunday Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Authors, New Books, Nabokov the Original of Laura, Books, Madison Smartt Bell, Al Roker, Hendrick Hertzberger, The Original of Laura, Books News

Miss some of the weekend's book reviews? We're back again to catch you up with a book review round-up of the newest in fine literature and in... well,...

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Eating Animals: Caring Is Not A Zero-Sum Game

Laurie David | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Michiko Kakutani, Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, Eating Animals, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Book Reviews, Laurie David, Animals, Vegetarianism, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News
Laurie David

One of the many problems with Michiko Kakutani's lame and flamboyantly irrational New York Times review of Eating Animals is that it suggests her own irrelevancy.

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Palin Goes Rogue On The Facts

Progressive Book Club | Max Blumenthal | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Going Rogue Review, Palin Book, Book Reviews, Sarah Palin Going Rogue, Palin, Going Rogue, Female Politicians, Books, Sarah Palin Book, Sarah Palin Memoir, Sarah Palin, Bestsellers, Books News

Max Blumenthal Progressive Book Club/Media Matters for America review In August 2008, when then-senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sa...

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The Irregulars: An Engaging Bio of Roald Dahl During the War That Flags When the War Ends

Alex Remington | Posted 11.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Reviews, Roald Dahl, Jennet Conant, The Irregulars, Ian Fleming, World War II, Books News
Alex Remington

Jennet Conant's recent book The Irregulars is the perfect Washington summer read: it's a breezy society tale about British spying on America before and during World War II.

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Sparks Specializes in Sad Songs

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Miley Cyrus, Nicholas Sparks, Nc, Divorce, Songwriting, Teen Angst, Fiction, Wilimington, Book Reviews, Books News
Jackie K. Cooper

There are moments in this story that are so affecting that you have to stop reading until you can see the pages through your tears. Is this contrived? Is this manipulative? Maybe it is, but it is also the true heart of the story.

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My Father's Paradise: A Memoir About a Lost Jewish World

Alex Remington | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Judaism, Aramaic, My Father's Paradise, Book Reviews, Ariel Sabar, Memoir, Kurdistan, Kurdish Jewry, Israel, Kurdish Jews, Books News
Alex Remington

I recently read Ariel Sabar's memoir My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, which was published last year. It begi...

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Book Bloggers Rock!

Fauzia Burke | Posted 11.17.2009 | Books

Read More: Blogs, Book Publishing, Bloggers, Books, Book Reviews, Book Bloggers, Book Publicity, Publicity, Books News
Fauzia Burke

With newspapers and magazines folding left and right, book coverage has been severely impacted. Luckily, book bloggers have come to the rescue, often without the credit they deserve.

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Jason Linkins

Dueling Palin Reviews Equals Zero For Readers

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Matthew Continetti, Media Criticism, Book Reviews, Ana Marie Cox, Going Rogue, Sarah Palin, Media News

I don't really see much point to newspapers running dueling reviews of a single book -- it's sort of feckless, isn't it? Well, shucks! if you didn't ...

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Malcolm Gladwell and the Case For Endless Self-Googling

David Quigg | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Outliers, The New Yorker, Book Reviews, What the Dog Saw, Essays, Writer, Steven Pinker, Gladwell, Tipping Point, Blink, Eigenvalue, Igon Value, Authors, Self-Googling, Algebra, New York Times, Malcolm Gladwell, Books, Books News, Google, Books News
David Quigg

I piled cringe upon cringe Friday -- first because I read Steven Pinker's vivisection of Malcolm Gladwell's new collection, second because of what I found when I Googled a flub Pinker wielded against Gladwell.

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Energy Bookshelf: Ten More Worth Your Time Than Super Freaky Crap

A. Siegel | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Richard Littlemore, Farm City, Plan B 4.0, Green, Eco-Friendly, Sustainability, Climate Change, Environmental, No Impact Man, Book Reviews, Global Warming Deniers, Climate Delayers, Global Warming, Energy, Colin Bean, Conservation, Green Building, 2044, Energy Bookshelf, Plan B, Catastrophic Climate Change, Science as a Contact Sport, Almost Green, Stephen Schneider, Building Green, James Glave, Eric Lotke, Keith Farnish, Operation Redwood, Lester Brown, S Terrell French, Evironmental, Carbon Dioxide, Novella Carpenter, Climate Cover-Up, James Hoggan, Greg Caven, Green News
A. Siegel

The authors of Superfreakonomics super(freaky)star status means that they and their travesty of a book will get attention despite its non-truthful truthiness and misleading mediocrity on climate-change.

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Malcolm Gladwell's "What The Dog Saw": Great Writing, Suspect Science

The New York Times | STEVEN PINKER | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Outliers, Tipping Point, Book Reviews, Blink, Authors, Essays, Writer, Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw, Steven Pinker, Books, Gladwell, Books News

Fortunately for "What the Dog Saw," the essay format is a better showcase for Gladwell's talents, because the constraints of length and editors yield ...

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Nathan Rabin's "The Big Rewind" Needed a Little Re-Edit

Alex Remington | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Nathan Rabin, The Big Rewind, Av Club, The Onion, Books, Onion AV Club, Book Reviews, Authors, Pop Culture, Reviews, Memoir, Books News
Alex Remington

Emotional honesty is a lot harder to take seriouslywhen you constantly undercut it by using the same hoary one-liners and jokes from Mr. Show.

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Going Rogue by Sarah Palin: A Review (Sort-of)

Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Blanche Lincoln, Sarah Palin, Book Reviews, Going Rogue, Sarah Palin Book, Daniel Krotz, Bookseller, David Pryor, Palin Book, Going Rogue in Discount Bin, Sarah Palin Going Rogue, Books News
Daniel Krotz

Is Going Rogue a good book? Who knows? Who cares? Generally speaking, books by politicians of any ideological persuasion have the shelf life of a grape.

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Philip Roth's "The Humbling": Axler's Theater

The New York Review of Books | Elaine Blair | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

Read More: The Humbling Review, Books, American Pastoral, Philip Roth the Humbling, The Plot Against America, New York Review of Books, Indignation, Everyman, Book Reviews, New Philip Roth Book, The Humbling, Zuckerman, Philip Roth, Exit Ghost, Simon Axler, Nyr, Books News

Axler's Theater Elaine Blair The New York Review of Books "The Humbling" by Philip Roth. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 140 pp., $22.00 One of the ...

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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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Washington Times Shake-Ups Connected To New President's Book Review?

Politico | Michael Calderone | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Newspapers, Washington Times Staffing, Washington Times, Books, Book Reviews, Clash of the Gods Review, Clash of the Gods, Jonathan Slevin, Washington Times Book Review, Books News

Given today's big management changes and still-unanswered questions about whether executive editor John Solomon will stay at the paper, there are a lo...

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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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Andre Agassi's "Open": Meth, Bitterness, And Bad Hair (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: The Tender Bar, Ghostwriting, Books, Addiction, New Books, Tennis, French Open, Andre Agassi Book, Steffi Graf, Brooke SHields, US Open, Wimbledon, Katie Couric, Andre Agassi Open, Open, Book Reviews, Memoir, Andre Agassi, Moehringer, Andre Agassi Meth, Books News

Andre Agassi's new memoir, Open, out today, has been causing a stir because of major revelations in the book -- that Agassi used crystal meth regular...

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STRIP & REBIND: Why Publicists Love the Word "No"

Cassie Ammerman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Book Reviews, Publicists, Publicity, Writing, Book Publishing, Blogs, Authors, Book Publicity, Biography, Books, Book Publicists, Newspapers, Books News
Cassie Ammerman

There is a word that publicists love almost as much as "yes." And it's "no." Seems counterintuitive, right? But it's true. There is little I love more than a solid "no."

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ISO My Twitter Persona

Sarah Schmelling | Posted 11.07.2009 | Books

Read More: Project Runway, Twitter, Writing, Books, Book Reviews, Book Promotion, Youtube, Branding, Facebook, Top Chef, Books News
Sarah Schmelling

I'd just had an event at a popular L.A. bookstore. I saw old friends, answered great questions, sold a good amount of books. But that next morning I realized: I hadn't tweeted it.

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Confronting Words: Poetry Reviews

Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Yusef Komunyakaa, Poetry, Carol Muske-Dukes, Reetika Vazirani, Molly Bendall, UNDER the QUICK, Carpathia, Book Reviews, Poetry Reviews, Ecilia Woloch, Books, Chinder, Poems, Books News
Carol Muske-Dukes

The three books reviewed here are by women writers who confront the world in uncompromised fashion.

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The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It

Anis Shivani | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Thomas Szasz, Dopamine, Walden Two, Dsm, Drug Companies, Richard P. Bentall, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Prozac, Psychosis, Fda, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Schizophrenia, Madness, American Psychiatric Association, Ssris, B. F. Skinner, Neurotransmitters, Evidence-Based Medicine, Treatment of Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Depression, Chlorpromazine, Drug Company Profits, Randomized Controlled Trials, Mental Asylums, Big Pharma, Ect, Placebo, Rose Kennedy, Insulin Coma Therapy, Antipsychiatry, Mental Illness, Pharmaceutical Industry, R. D. Laing, Brain Chemistry, Carl Rogers, Prefrontal Leucotomy, Psychiatric Drugs, Genetics, Psychiatric Practice, Walter Freeman, Emil Kraepelin, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Book Reviews, Books, Books News
Anis Shivani

Dr. Richard P. Bentall, professor and practitioner of clinical psychology in Britain, exposes the highly dubious nature of reigning presumptions about the causes and treatment of mental illness.

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The Help: Kathryn Stockett's Controversial Hit

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Fiction, To Kill a Mockingbird, Book Reviews, The Help, Dialect, Kathryn Stockett, Kathryn Stockett the Help, New Books, Books, African Americans, Bestsellers, New Authors, Books News

First-time author Kathryn Stockett's recent book, The Help, has risen quickly through the bestseller lists despite Stockett being previously unknown a...

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The Novice: A Book Review

Peter Clothier | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Book Reviews, Buddhism, The Inner Life, Spirituality, Living News
Peter Clothier

At loose ends and casting about for some kind of meaning to his life, he breaks away from family and home, and describes his discovery and embrace of Buddhism.

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Al Gore's Our Choice: Progressive Book Club Review

Progressive Book Club | Bill McKibben | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Progressive Book Club, Al Gore, Book Reviews, An Inconvenient Truth, Green, Global Warming, Gore Solutions Summit, Pollution, Al Gore an Inconvenient Truth, Environment, Our Choice, Al Gore Book Review, Environmental, Environmental Problems, Fossil Fuels, Al Gore Book, Going Green, Books, Al Gore Our Choice, One Year Later, Books News

Bill McKibben Progressive Book Club Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis By Al Gore Rodale, 2009 There's been a certain amount of debate ...

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