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What We Talk About When We Talk About JonBenet

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media

Read More: Patsey Ramesy; Burke Ramsey, This Is Our Youth, Postmodernism, American Literary Imagination, Joyce Carol Oates Book Reviews, Bonfire of the Vanities, Us Weekly, Breaking Media News, The Surreal Life, True Crime, My Sister, My Love, Huffpost Books, Books, Charles Dickens, Coming-of-Age St Carol Oates, Book Reviews, Arthur Gordon Pym, Media News
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

Joyce Carol Oates' new novel is a full-throated critique of the late Baby-boom culture of celebrity, social-climbing, psycho-speak, "cybercesspoolspace," and "heaven scent" spirituality.

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Fahrenheit L.A. Times

Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media

Read More: L.A. Times, Cook Book Reviews, Bookstores, Books, Book Re, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Jon Robin Baitz

So I read yesterday that the L.A. Times has finally done in the book review section. Sad, short sighted, and just another bad omen for the print world.

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Amazon Kindle Review: It'll Make You Smarter and Richer, Kind Of, But Not Really

Dave Burdick | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Kindle E-Book, Huffpost Books, Kindle, Books, E Ink, E-Books, Tech Reviews, Technology, Amazon.com, Business News
Dave Burdick

I could hand this to my friends or my parents and feel confident that they could read with it -- it might be easier to use than an iPod (but, importantly, it's not easier to use than a book).

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Hitler's Doctor is Living in the Bronx: How 1940 Came to Be

Jay Neugeboren | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Ron Rosenbaum, 1940, Adolf Hitler, Hitler, Books, Entertainment News
Jay Neugeboren

So grateful was Hitler to his Jewish childhood physician that in 1940 he intervened to provide Dr. Bloch and his family with visas that enabled them to escape Austria and the Holocaust.

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Hitler's Physician

Steven G. Kellman | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Literature, Jews, Oedipus, Holocaust, Adolf Hitler, Hitler, Books, Entertainment News
Steven G. Kellman

A few historians and psychoanalysts have suggested that that Hitler's physician was himself responsible in part for Adolf's violent obsession with Jews.

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Lunchtime for Burroughs

Jan Herman | Posted 07.16.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Literature, Beat Movement, William S. Burroughs, Expats, Beatniks, Naked Lunch, Jack Kerouac, Books, Entertainment News
Jan Herman

Half a century since its publication, William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch will be examined more closely by scholars, critics and other riffraff in Naked Lunch @ 50: Anniversary Essays.

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Book Review: Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth

Andrew Frisicano | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Books, Music, Book Reviews, Huffpost Books, David Browne, Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth, Media News
Andrew Frisicano

Take note: Sonic Youth's story is largely unglamorous. And rightfully so. While excising rock from its blues roots, SY also managed to create a new paradigm of the rock star.

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Preview: Wild, Upcoming Novel By NYT Veteran Lampoons Judy Miller and Other NYTers

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media

Read More: Judy Miller, Books, Novel, Bill Keller, The New York Times, Huffpost Books, Media News
Greg Mitchell

Sure to get media tongues a-wagging when published on July 31 is the new John Darnton novel, Black and White and Dead All Over.

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White House Ignored CIA On Guantanamo Detainees' Innocence, New Book Says

Washington Post | Joby Warrick | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jane Mayer, Cia, Books, Bush Administration, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

A CIA analyst warned the Bush administration in 2002 that up to a third of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay may have been imprisoned by mistake, but Wh...

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Dick Cheney: Environmental Hazard

Bruce Kluger & David Slavin | Posted 07.10.2008 | Home

Read More: The Enviroment, Political Humor, Books, Tim Foley, David Slavin, Bruce Kluger, Dick Cheney, Young Dick Cheney: Great American, Home News
Bruce Kluger & David Slavin

By now, we've all read about the latest environmental wedgie that Vice President Dick Cheney has given to the world's climate. If you somehow missed t...

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Salman Rushdie Wins (Yet Another) Literary Award

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 07.10.2008 | Entertainment

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LONDON — Salman Rushdie is probably the Booker Prize's best-known winner. Now he is officially the best. Rushdie's 1981 novel "Midnight's Child...

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Jeffrey Sachs Wants To Change The Economy And Save The World

Grist | Amanda Griscom Little | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Jeffrey Sachs, Huffpost Books, Economy, Books, Green Economy, Sustainable Economy, World Economy, Green News

Jeffrey Sachs -- the renowned economist who devised a grand plan in 2005 to rid the world of poverty -- is now focused on an even broader ambition: s...

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Con Games: Code Friedman

Michael Conniff | Posted 07.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Thomas Friedman, Aspen, Aspen Ideas Festival, Books, David Halberstam, Thomas Friedman Suck on This, Media News
Michael Conniff

Something has happened to Thomas Friedman: he has started to believe his own bullsh*t. A fatal flaw has crept into Friedman's reporting that borders on journalistic megalomania.

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Black and White and Dead All Over: New York Times Veteran Pens Newspaper Murder Mystery

Portfolio.com | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 07.03.2008 | Media

Read More: New York Times Murder Mystery, New York Times, John Darnton, Black and White and Dead All Over, Huffpost Books, Books, Media News

Have you picked out your beach reading material yet? If you work at The New York Times, you might want to get your hands on an advance copy of Black a...

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Artificial Dissemination

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Network, Democratic Primary, Old Media vs. New Media, Big Media, Howard Beale, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, 2008 Presidential Race, 2008 Democratic Primary Debates, The Kingmakers, Democratic Party, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Mike Gravel, Breaking Media News, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Trent Lott, Kennedy v. Louisiana, Strom Thurmond, Books, Media News
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

Reading The Kingmakers evokes feelings not dissimilar to watching Mike Gravel during debates: you sympathize with him, but can't help concluding that he's a few bricks short of a load.

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Freedom Banned

Richard LaGravenese | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Public Schools, Amnesty International Freedom Writers, Long Beach, Holocaust, Anne Frank, Hilary Swank, Books, Shakespeare, Censorship, Freedom Writers, Media News
Richard LaGravenese

In Perry, Indiana, the School Board has suspended a teacher for allowing her students to read The Freedom Writers Diary. How can it be that they did not see the value of the lessons to be learned?

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Political-Ish Summer Reads

Eric Kuhn | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Glenn Beck, Books, Political Books, Political Reading, Summer Reading, Summer 08 Reading, New Books, Politics News
Eric Kuhn

With the long primary season over and the presidential race gearing up, political wonks might need a break from the "real world" this summer. Escapism via a novel is one solution.

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The Rights of Marriage, California Style

Tom Gregory | Posted 06.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Civil War, Betty Berzon, Little House on the Prairie, Books, Jazz, Max Roach, Engagement, Malcolm Boyd, Chris Freeman, Prejudice, California Marriage Ruling, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage, West Hollywood, Mark Thompson, Slavery, James Berg, Gay Marriage, Love, Bravery, Living News
Tom Gregory

Love, West Hollywood highlights the human side of an inequality that is finally unraveling. We'll see what happens in California in the next six months -- the whole world is watching us.

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Happiness Tip Of The Day: Read Something For Fun

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 06.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Happiness, Books, How to Be Happy, The Balanced Life, Living News
Gretchen Rubin

I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you should have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit....

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Salman Rushdie Knighted

AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 06.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Salman Rushdie Knighted, Salman Rushdie, Queen Elizabeth II, Huffpost Books, Books, Entertainment News

LONDON — Author Salman Rushdie slipped into Buckingham Palace on Wednesday to receive a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II that had angered many...

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Slideshow: See Who Attended Arianna's "Right Is Wrong" Book Party

Huffington Post | Posted 06.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Right Is Wrong, Slideshow, Books, Domenico Vacca, Arianna Right Is Wrong, Living News

A large crowd turned out on Monday, June 23rd to toast Arianna's latest book Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Con...

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Jezebel's "Fine Lines" Feature Gets Picked Up By HarperCollins In First Non-Gawker Gawker Book Deal

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Books, Jezebel, Huffpost Books, Fine Lines, Media News

If you are a woman of certain age — that age being the age of growing up with books like Summer of Fear and The Girl With The Silver Eyes and De...

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M*A*S*H-ing The Death Penalty

Elaine Petrocelli | Posted 06.23.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Mike Farrell, Death Penalty Focus, Books, Mash, Death Penalty, Huffpost Books, Bj Hunnicutt, Entertainment News
Elaine Petrocelli

People come to an author event for Mike Farrell to hear some pleasant nostalgia about M*A*S*H's Dr. B.J. Hunnicutt. They get that - but they also leave with a well-reasoned earful about why we need to end capital punishment.

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Why Smart Brains Make Stupid Decisions

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 06.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Brain Books, Harvard, Irrational, Dark Force, Rational, Brain, Ori Brafman, Decision-Making, Sway, Smart Brain, Stanford, Psychology, Smart Brains, Books, Huffpost Books, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

It happens. Often. But why? To answer that, we secured an interview with Ori Brafman, co-author of Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior.

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SLIDESHOW: "Camp Camp" Takes Us Back To Summers Gone By

Roger Bennett | Posted 06.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Summer Camp, Slideshow, Books, Huffpost Books, Camp Camp, Living News
Roger Bennett

"Camp Camp: Where Fantasy Island Meets Lord of the Flies" is the sequel to "Bar Mitzvah Disco," picking up where that book left off — to head ba...

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