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A Couple of Books That the Unabomber Would Enjoy
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Jonathan Moore's The Night Market is a sci-fi crime thriller that blends the byzantine plotting and tone of Raymond Chandler with some ...
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Dave Drops a Grotowski
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Years ago-- for about thirty seconds-- I contemplated writing a book about the rise of the amateur . . . I was stupefied with the sheer mass...
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Robinsons Crusoe: The Ocean is Half Full
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I was inspired to read Daniel Defoe's early novel Robinson Crusoe by the stubbornly lovable steward from The Moonstone by Wilkie Coll...
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Dave Does NOT Bring the Hammer Down
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This year, I'm teaching my students very differently than I have in years previous and this is mainly because our college writing class ...
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2017 Book List
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I just finished my 46th book of 2017 this afternoon and it's a fitting one for the end of the year; Kids These Days: Human Capital and t...
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Get Your Head in the Bardo
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You've probably heard that acclaimed short-story writer George Saunders won the Man Booker prize for his first novel, Lincoln in the Bar...
Nice Work Wilkie!
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I just finished The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins and though it was published in 1868 and the story is told by an extensive epistolary spiral...
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Adrian McKinty + Willie Nelson = Literature
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Adrian McKinty has produced another solid mystery set amidst the Troubles in Northern Ireland-- Police at the Station and They Don't Lo...
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The Main Thing About the Future is You're Not In It
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If you're a fan of Shane Carruth's time-travel film Primer -- which Chuck Klosterman called the finest and most realistic time-trav...
You Got Some Bubba Bona Fides?
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Nancy Isenberg's treatise White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America is a detailed slog through the swampy history o...
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If It Wasn't For You Meddling Post-Traumatic Young Adults . . .
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Edgar Cantero's meta-novel Meddling Kids is an interesting fictional experiment: a Scooby-Doo-like gang of kid detectives are reunit...
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The Butterfly Effect Is Silly
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James Gleick's new book Time Travel: A History is strange and uncategorizable: it begins as a history of the idea of time travel-- H.G....
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Game of Bosch
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Michael Connelly's Nine Dragons is one of the darkest Bosch novels . . . this time Hieronymus takes on the Chinese Triad syndicate . . ....
Oh, What a Noble Mind is Here O'erthrown
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Whatever he's writing about-- whether it's the banality of sports memoirs; the politics of prescriptive and descriptive dictionaries...
You Had to Be There (Not That You'd Want To)
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Mark Bowden's new book Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam recounts the Tet Offensive, the capture of the ancient p...
This Post Is Not Beethoven's Ninth Symphny
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A couple weeks ago, I brought a stack of books home from the library and told my kids to choose one and start reading . . . Ian chose I Am L...
The Victorian Age: Unbuttoned and Muddy
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On nearly every page of The Essex Serpent , a dense and lengthy novel by Sarah Perry, ideas clash-- but in the civilized manner of the late...
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Inside Out is a Great Movie But . . .
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Lisa Feldman Barrett's new book How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain is psychologically groundbreaking-- it upends intui...
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This Happened? In America? Less Than 100 Years Ago? Yikes
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David Grann's book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI is a tough story in more ways than one; it'...
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Barrett vs Tolstoy
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Lisa Feldman Barrett begs to differ with the opening premise of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina : "Happy families are all alike; every unh...
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