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HRC's Choice: Seward or Chase?

David Quigg | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics

William H. Seward or Salmon P. Chase?

This -- in addition to being the most arcane, nerdy question I've ever typed -- is the crucial choice Senator Clinton now faces. Seward and Chase shared the indignity of losing their party's nomination to a relatively inexperienced opponent. That opponent, a guy...

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Read Any Good Books Lately?

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted May 16, 2008 | Media

Read More: Betsy West, Books, Constantine's Sword, Huffpost Books, Michael Cunningham, Oren Jacoby, Publishing, Pulitzer Prize., Sloane Crosley, The Brief And Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao

This month, Michael Cunningham, Oren Jacoby, Betsy West, and Sloane Crosley, are helping stave off the panic I felt earlier this year when I read "Twilight of the Books" by Caleb Crain in The New Yorker, subtitled "What will life be like if people stop reading?" It's a particularly...

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James Frey emerges, with a novel about LA

AP | SARA ROSE | May 14, 2008

Read More: Books, Frey Bright Shiny Morning, Huffpost Books, James Frey

"Bright Shiny Morning" (HarperCollins, 501 pages, $26.95) by James Frey: In this age of controversial pseudo-memoirs, James Frey, the man who started it all, leaves his past behind and tackles Los Angeles in his new novel. With a nod to...

Book Review: "Slip Of The Knife"

Fred Klein | Posted May 3, 2008 | Media

Read More: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Huffpost Books

"Slip of the Knife"
by Denise Mina

For inveterate mystery fans, finding a new voice can be a wonderful jolt, like discovering your own personal oil well. That is what I felt when I ran across this new book by the Scottish writer Denise Mina. Having been hung up...

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Book Review: "Child 44"

Tom Alderman | Posted May 3, 2008 | Media

Read More: Book Reviews, Books, Child 44, Huffpost Books

"Child 44" - Audio Book
by Tom Rob Smith; Narrator: Dennia Boutsikaris

While there are flashes of a compelling police mystery in this first novel by Tom Rob Smith, the primary problem is the plot and characters come off as plodding, bleak and brutal as the oppressive...

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From Lonesome Dove to Lonesome Book Lover

Patt Morrison | Posted May 1, 2008 | Living

Read More: Books, Los Angeles

The stars came out for a love of Larry McMurtry, just as 45 years ago McMurtry came out to Los Angeles, and kept coming back - for a love of books.

McMurtry won a Pulitzer Prize for Lonesome Dove, one of his 40-plus books. Many of them have become films...

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Ron Paul Book Hits No. 1 On Amazon

CNN | April 30, 2008 08:11 PM

Read More: Books, Huffpost Books, Ron Paul, Ron Paul Amazon, Ron Paul Book, Ron Paul The Revolution

Ron Paul's loyal supporters helped him set campaign fundraising records and capture more delegates during his presidential run than some of his high-profile Republican rivals. They even managed to briefly shut down Nevada's GOP convention earlier this month over a...

James Frey And Nan Talese: Oprah Duped Us!

Huffington Post via Vanity Fair | April 30, 2008 09:34 AM

Read More: Books, Huffpost Books, James Frey, James Frey Oprah, James Frey Vanity Fair, Nan Talese, Nan Talese Oprah, Oprha

Amid the Miley Cyrus hoopla, it's easy to forget that there's a whole issue of Vanity Fair that comes out today. And one article in the magazine that is a must-read is Evgenia Peretz' interview with James Frey (supposedly the...

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Speak of the Devil

Bruce Kluger & David Slavin | Posted April 29, 2008 |

Read More: AlterNet Books, Books, Bruce Kluger, David Slavin, Humor, New York Daily News, Rush & Molloy, Salman Rushdie, Satan, Tim Foley, Young Dick Cheney: Great American

Salman Rushdie knows Dick -- at least according to this item that ran in the Rush & Molloy column in today's New York Daily News:

Young Dick Cheney must be riveting. Salman Rushdie was reading...

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Dutton's Bookstore Closing: Where Will Booklovers Go?

Tom Teicholz | Posted April 29, 2008 | Living

Read More: Booklovers, Books, Bookstores, Dutton's Bookstore, Public Libraries, The Los Angeles Central Library, The New York Public Library, The Santa Monica Library

Dutton's Brentwood Books, among the best-known and best-loved of Los Angeles' independent bookstores, will close on April 30.

It is hard not to take this as a sign of the times.

Over the past few years many local independent bookstores have gone the way of the local movie theater, the...

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A Painter's Story

Peter Clothier | Posted April 29, 2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Art, Art Market, Book Review, Books, East-West, Huffpost Books, Jennifer Cody Epstein, Pan Yuliang

There's a huge amount of interest in the art world, these days, in what's happening on the art scene in post-Cultural Revolution China. The phenomenal exhibition of the work of Shanghai-trained Cai Guo-Qiang, currently installed at the Simon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, offers but one example of the...

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Exclusive -- Obama in 1995: "We Live in a Land of Strangers"

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted April 28, 2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Bill Thompson, Books, Dreams From My Father, Education, Eye On Books, Obama Land Of Strangers, Race, Religion And Politics

In a just-unearthed 1995 interview, Barack Obama describes America as "a land of strangers" where, despite all the rhetoric about the "browning of America," the melting pot remains a far-off dream for most -- with different communities as foreign to one another as distant countries. He discusses how white executives...

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Remember When CBS Was The Place To Be? Roger Mudd Does

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | April 26, 2008 10:25 AM

Read More: Books, Huffpost Books

Now 80 and sharp as a tack, Mudd has brought his decades-long experience to bear on telling his story. For those readers who would love to drop in on a conversation with a guy like this, here's your chance.

Eliot Spitzer Tell-All Book Shopped Around For High Prices

Huffington Post via Daily News | April 25, 2008 08:36 AM

Read More: Books, Eliot Spitzer, Eliot Spitzer Book, Eliot Spitzer Tell-All, Huffpost Books, Peter Elkind

As soon as the Eliot Spitzer scandal became public, book agents and writers were speculating over how much the stories would be worth. While much attention swirled around the notorious "Kristen," the hooker at the center of the scandal, others...

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One Sentence Guides To 16 Great Books

Pamela Redmond Satran | Posted April 24, 2008 | Living

You were supposed to read them back in school. You mean to read them....someday. And maybe you still will: you know, when you're old and rich and curled up by the fire in that country house you're going to retire to.

In the meantime, you can feign familiarity with centuries...

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Miley Cyrus Signs Disney Book Deal For Memoir

Publisher's Weekly | April 22, 2008 12:16 PM

Read More: Books, Disney Book Group, Hannah Montana, Huffpost Books, Miley Cyrus, Miley Cyrus Book

Publisher's Weekly reports that teen queen Miley Cyrus has signed a mega-deal to write about her life, due out next year: For tween girls, there's no bigger name these days than Hannah Montana. The Disney Channel show starring Miley Cyrus,...

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'Kansas' Author Frank Debuts With WSJ, Offers View Of 'Bittergate'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | April 21, 2008 04:35 PM

Read More: Barack Obama, Bitter, Bittergate, Books, Hillary Clinton, Huffpost Books, Jeff Bercovici, Obama Bitter, Obama Bitter Comment, Obama Bitter Pennsylvanians, Portfolio, Portfolio Magazine, Wall Street Journal

Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici, assessing the new redesign at the Wall Street Journal, notes more than just the changes in aesthetics - there's actually a conscious effort to bring some left-of-center ideas to the opinion pages. One such newcomer to the...

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Top 23 Brainy Books

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted April 21, 2008 | Living

Read More: Books, Brain, Brain And Mind, Brain Books, Brain Health, Brain Research, Brain Training, Cognitive, Cognitive Psychology, Education, Exercise, Healthy Aging, Improve Memory, Neurogenesis, Neurons, Neuroplasticity, Neuroscience, Sharpbrains

Did you know that, no matter your age, your brain will probably have new neurons by the end of today? And that some of your decisions will have an impact on that number -- and on how long new and existing neurons survive?

A decade after the...

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The Best Meteorology Novel of the Year

Mark Oppenheimer | Posted April 20, 2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Book Reviews, Books, Huffpost Books, Meteorology, Novels, Publishing, Rivka Galchen

A review of mine that just appeared in The Forward:

Atmospheric Disturbances
By Rivka Galchen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 256 pages, $24.

Having just finished "Atmospheric Disturbances," Rivka Galchen's first novel, I find myself strangely unable to stop thinking about "Bandits," the last Elmore Leonard novel I...

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Harry Potter Fan Weeps On Stand During Rowling's Suit

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | April 15, 2008

Read More: Books, Harry Potter, Harry Potter Lexicon, Harry Potter Suit, Huffpost Books, J.K.Rowling, JK Rowling, Steven Vander Ark

%meta(topic:ap_topic:general entertainment;subtopic:other;%) NEW YORK (AP) _ A Harry Potter fan who wants to publish an encyclopedic guide to the popular fantasy novels broke down and cried on the witness stand Tuesday as he reluctantly faced off in federal court against...

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