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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...

Movies Instead of High School? Join The Film Club!

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted May 4, 2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Book Review, Canada, Children, David GIlmour, Fathers, Film, Huffpost Books, Movies, Parents, Sons, The Film Club

Memoirs seem to have overtaken the publishing industry, displacing novels as literary enrichment and entertainment. When a memoir turns out to be made up, we hear a lot about it in the media, even on the very unbookish Larry King Live. Since James Frey's million pieces of fabrication, the American...

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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

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

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

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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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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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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...

It's the Humanity, Stupid!

Peter Clothier | Posted March 26, 2008 | Living

Read More: Book Reviews, Books, Buddhism, Huffpost Books, Religion, Thailand, The Gospel Of Father Joe

Okay, so I'm a bleeding heart liberal, and my heart is bleeding all over again.

I have just finished reading The Gospel of Father Joe: Revolutions and Revelations in the Slums of Bangkok by Greg Barrett -- a book that has allowed me to put a human face...

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Book Reivew: Mapping the Dharma: A Concise Guide to the Middle Way of the Buddha, by Paul Gerhards

Peter Clothier | Posted January 17, 2008 | Living

Read More: Book Reviews, Books, Buddhism, Huffpost Books, Mapping The Dharma, Mapping The Dharma Review, Paul Gerhards

Maybe you're a bit like me. Maybe you think you have a good, serviceable mind, but know that you don't possess that kind of brain that snaps to and remembers everything that comes its way. Maybe you have a more than passing interest in Buddhism, have read some of the...

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Heart Beat: A Book Review

Peter Clothier | Posted December 4, 2007 | Living

Read More: An Arrow To The Heart: A Commentary On The Heart Sutra, Books, Dick Allen, Huffpost Books, Ken McLeod, Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism

An Arrow to the Heart: A Commentary on the Heart Sutra

By Ken McLeod
(Trafford Publishing)

Let's say right off: you don't have to be a Buddhist to read this book. In fact, you don't need to be attached to a religion of any kind. But if you're...

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Book Review: Other People's Love Letters

Samara O'Shea | Posted November 29, 2007 | Living

Read More: Ben Franklin, Bill Shapiro, Book Reviews, Books, David H. Lowenherz, How To Write a Love Letter, Huffpost Books, Letter Writing, Letter Writing Books, Love Letters, The Art Of Letter Writing

First, a confession: I love the subject matter of this book too much to give it anything but two thumbs up. In my defense, however, I'll go so far as to say that I think most people are prone to agree with me. When I tell passersby that I write...

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