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"Mentors, Muses & Monsters" Review: Writers Explore Their Influences

Washington Times | Martin Rubin | Posted 12.30.2009 | Books

Read More: Mentors Muses and Monsters Review, Writers, Book Reviews, Book Review, Mentors Muses and Monsters, Elizabeth Benedict, Writing, Authors, Books, Books News

If you are interested in writers, literature and the actual process of writing, this is definitely the book for you. But as long as you are interested...

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Thirst: A Terrific Debut Short Story Collection by a Peripatetic Quadrogenarian

Alex Remington | Posted 12.30.2009 | Books

Read More: Short Stories, Book Reviews, Ken Kalfus, Books, Fiction, Books News
Alex Remington

Thirst is a collection of short stories, many of which are set in exotic locales, and nearly all of which are preoccupied with some form of lust or longing -- a thirst as spiritual as physical, but in almost all cases dangerous.

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Book Review Roundup: Weekday Edition

Posted 12.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Last Words George Carlin, The Play That Changed My Life, George Carlin, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Memoir a History, Downbeat, Books News

As reviewers come back from the holidays, they seem to be making up for lost time. There have been so many new book reviews so far this week that we w...

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Book Review Roundup

Posted 12.28.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Reviews, Shoptimism, Immigrant Inc., New Books, The Red Book Carl Jung, Stop Getting Ripped Off, Susie Orbach Bodies, Elvis Presley, Remarkable Creatures, Summertime J.M. Coetzee, Book Review, The Restored New Testament, Carl Jung, Books, Unfolding the Napkin, Tracy Chevalier, Coetzee, Books News

While you were off spending time with family and friends, you may have missed the weekend's reviews of new books. Here they are now in your weekly boo...

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Author Calling FBI About Negative Amazon Reviewers?

The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 12.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Anne Rice, Neil Gaiman, Negative Reviews, Book Reviews, Amazon Reviews, Authors, Alice Hoffman, Electra Galaxy's Mr. Interstellar Feller, Books, Candace Sams, Fbi, Books News

This year has seen its fair share of authors kicking off about poor reviews, from Alice Hoffman, who called a Boston Globe critic a "moron" on Twitter...

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Book Review Roundup

Posted 12.21.2009 | Books

Read More: Hitler's Panzers, Dostoevsky Joseph Frank, The First Tycoon, Book Reviews, The Man in the Wooden Hat, Crazy Like Us, New Books, London Boulevard, Horns, Books, The Talented Miss Highsmith, The Vintage Caper, Books News

We're back again with your weekly book review roundup: "The Talented Miss Highsmith", Joan Schenkar The New York Times Schenkar's writing is witty...

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Afghanistan: The American Experience (New York Review)

The New York Review of Books | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books

Read More: Jihad, Cia, Communist, Nyr, Afghanistan, Washington Post, September 11th, Barack Obama, Woodward, Osama Bin Laden, Soviet Union, New York Review of Books, Afghanistan History, Book Reviews, Afghanistan Book, Books News

Amy Hertz, Huffington Post: Two major powers have struggled for control of Afghanistan over the last few decades, The Soviet Union and the US. Facing ...

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Dominick Dunne's Last Book Skewers The Rich

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 12.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Authors, Book Review, Wealthy, Books, Too Much Money, Book Reviews, New Books, Cancer, Dominick Dunne, New York, Celebrities, Books News

"Too Much Money" (Crown Publishing, 288 pages, $26), by Dominick Dunne: You didn't think the grave could possibly silence one of the most famous chron...

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Book Review Roundup

Posted 12.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Abigail Adams, Book Reviews, Writing, On Thin Ice, Too Much Money, New Books, Generation A, The Value of Nothing, Literary Life, Books, Manhood, Books News

As it gets closer to Christmas, book review sites start looking back over the year, and reviewing fewer new books, but there are still some out there ...

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Survival Of The Selfless?

Peter Clothier | Posted 12.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Book Reviews, Dalai Lama, The Compassionate Instinct, The Art of Happiness, The Giving Life, Living News
Peter Clothier

Recent studies of human behavior are revealing that survival skills also required such qualities as compassion, mutual understanding and collaboration, even selflessness.

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Book Review Bites The Dust: The End Of Kirkus

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 12.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Mediabistro, Book Publishing, Twitter, Publishers Weekly, Nielsen, Libraries, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, New York Observer, Esther Newberg, Book Reviews, Editor and Publisher, Icm, Booksellers, Booklist, Books News

Kirkus Reviews announced yesterday that, after 76 years of publication, it would be shutting down. The subscription-based periodical, offering short r...

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Paper Tigers with Real Fangs: Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City

Andrew Gorin | Posted 12.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Book Reviews, Manhattan, Michiko Kakutani, New Books, Jonathan Lethem, Chronic City, Brooklyn, New York News
Andrew Gorin

Last Friday night, Brooklyn born novelist Jonathan Lethem concluded a citywide marathon reading of his new Chronic City with an impressive, nine-hour performance at Bookcourt.

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The Men Who Stare At Goats: Would You Believe the Book Is Better Than the Movie?

Alex Remington | Posted 12.08.2009 | Books

Read More: Grant Heslov, Book Reviews, George Clooney, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Books, Jon Ronson, Books News
Alex Remington

Ronson's light touch may work better on the written page because it's harder to believe the veracity of source material when it's in the context of a George Clooney movie.

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Book Review Roundup

Posted 12.07.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Reviews, Louis Armstrong, Reading, The Art Student's War, New Books, P.D. James, The Last Empress, Books, Dorothea Lange, Sofia Tolstoy, Walter Isaacson, Hellraisers, Books News

Your weekly book review roundup is back again: "Talking About Detective Fiction", P.D. James The New York Times ...[D]ispelling any doubts as to whe...

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Bury This Book! Amazon.com and the Gun Issue

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Gun Violence, Amazon.com, Book Publishing, National Rifle Association, Huffpost Books, Books, Book Reviews, Gun Control, Nra, Guns, Books News
Dennis A. Henigan

It seems apparent that, at least as to Lethal Logic, the Amazon customer views function more as a forum for the gun control debate than a forum for a debate about the book.

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"Don't Be Evil": How Larry Page and Sergey Brin Really Think and Should We Worry About Google's Dominance

Anis Shivani | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Search, Newspapers, Aol, Chrome, Free Content, Content, Copyright, Browser, Mosaic, Eric Schmidt, Adwords, Netscape, Search Engines, Chris Anderson, China, Internet Service Providers, Privacy, Adsense, Google Phone, Sergey Brin, Pagerank, Internet, Portals, Yahoo, Advertising Industry, Gmail, Publishing Industry, Google Android, Richard L. Brandt, Right to Privacy, Search Algorithms, Homepage, Inisde Larry and Sergey's Brain, Goto, Larry Page, Baidu, Magazines, Google, Microsoft, Google Book Settlement, Browser Wars, Death of Newspapers, Bill Gates, Facebook, China Human Rights, Cookies, Accenture, Internet Privacy, Advertising, Internet Advertising, Google Privacy, Iphone, Magazine Advertising, Privacy Concerns, Android, Censorship, Google Algorithm, Book Reviews, Don't Be Evil, Books, Silicon Valley, Books News
Anis Shivani

We shall see if Larry and Sergey's collective brain can keep up with the spontaneous evolution of the Internet.

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Book Review Roundup

Posted 11.30.2009 | Books

Read More: Mentors Muses and Monsters, Book Reviews, Stones Into Schools, Changing My Mind, Charles Dickens, Yours Ever, Reviews, Zadie Smith, Greg Mortenson, Too Much Happiness, Changing My Mind Zadie Smith, An Infinity of Things, Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson Stones Into Schools, Charles Dickens Biography, Julie Powell Cleaving, Books, Alice Munro, Dear Granny Smith, Julie Powell, Cleaving, Books News

Here's your weekly book review roundup, in case you missed the weekend's reviews in the midst of your food coma. "Family Album", Penelope Lively The ...

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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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