Children Books, With a Mighty Hand by Amy Ehrlich

Children's Books: 'With a Mighty Hand' by Amy Ehrlich | 'The ...

Wall Street Journal
The God of the monotheistic religions isn't a frequent presence in children'sbooks. Though belief and practice will sometimes inform a story's setting—and, ...

Wall Street Journal

Book Review: 'The Distancers' by Lee Sandlin

Wall Street Journal
When Lee Sandlin was growing up in Chicago in the 1960s, his parents would take him to stay with family in Edwardsville, Ill., just across the Mississippi River ...

Wall Street Journal

Author, former LAPD detective claims new evidence proves his ...

New York Daily News
The author — who first fingered his surgeon dad as the unsolved case's prime suspect in his 2003 book, “Black Dahlia Avenger” — said stunning new evidence ...

New York Daily News

Book Review: 'Gabriele d'Annunzio' by Lucy Hughes-Hallett ...

Wall Street Journal
Book Review: 'Gabriele d'Annunzio' by Lucy Hughes-Hallett | 'Pleasure' by Gabriele d' ... glory Gabriele d'Annunzio during World War I. At age 52, the author had ... who oversaw the defense of Paris, that “I would give all of my books for one of ...

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Authors, Lunatic Beliefs, book reviews

Author Goes With 'Lunatic Beliefs'

Wall Street Journal
Author Wayne Koestenbaum delightfully indulged in questions asked by ...radio voice on Tuesday evening in the basement of NoLita's McNally Jackson Books.

Wall Street Journal

'Turn Around Bright Eyes' by Rob Sheffield

Boston Globe
Book Review ... (The author's wife, “a real cool hell-raising Appalachian punk-rock girl” who shared his love for ... But about two-thirds of the way through this book, we wish he would. ... But I'm not sure I need to read another of his books.

Boston Globe

Book claims JD Salinger's secret deformity made him a recluse

Detroit Free Press
If you thought the recent revelation that five new JD Salinger books are due out ... drops a few of her own in the Washington Post, which got a copy of the book.

Alice Hoffman's latest work took her in a different direction

Boston Globe
I love the feeling of being in a library surrounded by books, especially the ...OF BLUE: I used to paint my office different colors to give me the sense of abook...

Boston Globe

Film on JD Salinger Claims More Books Coming

New York Times
But a forthcoming documentary and related book, both titled “Salinger,” ...his estate to publish at least five additional books — some of them entirely new, some ...

New York Times

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Book Reviews, The Truth in Small Doses by Clifton Leaf

Book Review: 'The Truth in Small Doses' by Clifton Leaf | 'The ...

Wall Street Journal
Book Review: 'The Truth in Small Doses' by Clifton Leaf | 'The Cancer ...Two new books by journalists with a personal experience of cancer suggest that our ... But each author brings an interesting perspective to the debate about how best to ...

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Book Review: "Inconvenient People" by Sarah Wise

Wall Street Journal
Book Review: "Inconvenient People" by Sarah Wise ... "inconvenient people" and the ordeals they underwent are the subject of Sarah Wise's powerful book.

Wall Street Journal

Book Review: 'The Great Dissent' by Thomas Healy

Wall Street Journal
Book Review: 'The Great Dissent' by Thomas Healy ... then introduced Holmes to its author, another young Harvard law professor named Zechariah Chafee Jr.

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Banned Books, Book Reviews

The Banned Books and Censored Magazines of Connecticut's State ...

The Atlantic
As of this month, you'll now be able to read the A Song of Ice and Firebooks by ... According to the bureau, the first book in the series, A Game of Thrones, was ...

The Atlantic

Half a Book Thrown at Manziel

Wall Street Journal
When I first read it, I didn't believe it. I squinted at the news break. Squinted! Like Harrison Ford in the desert heat. A half! Of one game? Was this true, or a hoax?

Book Review: 'Gentlemen Bankers' by Susie J. Pak

Wall Street Journal
Book Review: 'Gentlemen Bankers' by Susie J. Pak .... Mr. Gordon is the author of "Hamilton's Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt.".

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Nerds, Brooklyn, Books

Brooklyn Book Nerds Take to the Streets
Wall Street Journal
When they reached Terrace Books in Park Slope, some ventured inside to... After 4½ hours of reading, walking and Brooklyn book-nerd exuberance, the group ...

Wall Street Journal

Book News: FBI Suspected William T. Vollmann Was The Unabomber
NPR (blog)
Book News: FBI Suspected William T. Vollmann Was The Unabomber ...The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional authorbehaving badly.

NPR (blog)

Six must-read titles by Northwest authors
The Seattle Times
Laskin, an occasional book reviewer for The Seattle Times, has written several award-winning nonfiction books. Having finished “The Family,” I can conclusively ...

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The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, book reviews

'The Bone Season' by Samantha Shannon
Boston Globe
This core relationship, fired by trust and suspicion, attraction and repulsion, should generate enough heat to power the book's tension. Unfortunately, their ...

Boston Globe

Book Review: The Affairs of Others Uncovers the Pain, and Folly, of ...
Vanity Fair
Book Review: The Affairs of Others Uncovers the Pain, and Folly, of Being Alone ... In the book's opening scene, Celia tries to preserve the sanctity of the ...

Vanity Fair

Book: Tracing the Footsteps of Australia's Earhart
Wall Street Journal (blog)
In his new book, “Where is Dr. Leichhardt? The Greatest Mystery in Australian History,” historian and archaeologist Darrell Lewis scrutinizes the theories put up ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

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Book Reviews, For Discrimination, by Randall Kennedy

Book Review: 'For Discrimination' by Randall Kennedy

Wall Street Journal
And while it won't persuade opponents of the policy, the book has the salutary ... The author, a professor at Harvard Law School, begins building his case for ...

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Book Excerpt: Atchison Blue: A Search for Silence, a Spiritual Home ...

PBS
Read an excerpt from R&E correspondent Judy Valente's new book, Atchison Blue: A Search for Silence, a Spiritual Home, and an Authentic Faith (Sorin Books, ...

PBS

Book Review: 'Gloria Swanson' by Tricia Welsch | 'Gloria Swanson ...

Wall Street Journal
Book Review: 'Gloria Swanson' by Tricia Welsch | 'Gloria Swanson' by Stephen ... have trawled through the same archives but written two very different books.

Wall Street Journal

Book Review: 'The Bet' by Paul Sabin

Wall Street Journal
Book Review: 'The Bet' by Paul Sabin ... first three years alone, and its author would appear as Johnny Carson's guest on “The Tonight Show” at least 20 times, ...

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Books for the weekend, book reviews

Book picks for the weekend

USA TODAY
The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes; Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 369 pp.; fiction ... In The Girl You Left Behind, author Jojo Moyes (Me Before You) again ...

Book Review: 'On the Noodle Road' by Jen Lin-Liu

Wall Street Journal
Book Review: 'On the Noodle Road' by Jen Lin-Liu. Countless cultures eat... The author abandons her original conceit as soon as the going gets tough. She plans to follow the ... Bad books and bad meals alike require autopsies. What left me ...

Wall Street Journal

Book review: Readers choose the twists in romantic mystery 'Cold ...

Deseret News
Book review: Readers choose the twists in romantic mystery 'Cold Pursuit'... The author points out websites where readers can go to find images, additional ...

Deseret News

Author James Lee Burke publishes No. 20 in the Dave Robicheaux ...

Sacramento Bee
James Lee Burke was working on his next book when the phone rang. ... The Houston-born author has written 27 books split between three series, and five ... The New York Times Book Review has called you “the reigning champ of nostalgia ...

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JD Salinger, posthumous works are on the way?

JD Salinger: authors claim posthumous works are on the way | Books | theguardian.com: "The authors of a new JD Salinger biography claim they have cracked one of publishing's greatest mysteries: what the author of The Catcher in the Rye was working on during the last half century of his life. A series of posthumous Salinger releases are planned after 2015, according to David Shields and Shane Salerno, whose book Salinger will be published on 3 September. The Associated Press obtained an early copy. Salerno's documentary on the author is scheduled to come out 6 September..."

Harlan Ellison: “Life to me is a great ironic joke” - Salon.com: " . . . You’ve instructed her to destroy all your unfinished manuscripts when you ultimately leave the scene. I think that’s because no matter how good or bad, someone finishing your work, it wouldn’t be your words. That’s absolutely apt. I, never having written a sequel, understand that you chew your cud once. It’s just hoeing the same ground until what you’re producing is just like everything else you’ve produced. And my mind is much too wild for that, so even if it’s the greatest writer in the world…it’s not, [as] Gulley Jimson said in “The Horse’s Mouth,” “It’s not the dream I had.” Any unfinished stories you hope to complete? Yeah. I’m not prescient. I could get hit by that thunderbolt in the ass tonight, but there are at least fifty unfinished projects sitting in my office, and every day they sit there, winking up at me…Calling you to the typewriter. Like the ghosts of Christmas past, they do not let me rest. I write them in my head, I know what the next lines are, what the endings are, it’s just getting up the strength to do those foot-pounds of energy at the typewriter. . . ."

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Books, Eric Schmidt, Google, NSA, Julian Assange reviews

Google and the NSA: Who’s holding the ‘shit-bag’ now? | The Stringer: "Schmidt’s book is not about communicating with the public. He is worth $6.1 billion and does not need to sell books. Rather, this book is a mechanism by which Google seeks to project itself into Washington. It shows Washington that Google can be its partner, its geopolitical visionary, who will help Washington see further about America’s interests. And by tying itself to the US state, Google thereby cements its own security, at the expense of all competitors." --by Julian Assange (full article at link above)

What Are Your Favorite “Non-Boring” Business Books? | The Big Picture: "• Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed:  “It covers a 50-year period from before World War I and leading up to World War II. Even if you’re not interested in finance, it’s a great read” • The Big Short by Michael Lewis: “Michael Lewis, to me, is the preeminent narrator [of the financial crisis]. He is the guy who constructs the story better than anybody else.” (Lewis also wrote the wonderful Moneyball, which covers the business of Sports — kinda) . . . "

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Ying Ma, Chinese Girl in the Ghetto, Book TV

Book Discussion on [Chinese Girl in the Ghetto] - C-SPAN Video Library: "Ying Ma talked about her book, Chinese Girl in the Ghetto, in which she chronicles her experiences after moving from China to Oakland, California at the age of ten. She expected to live a better life in California than she did in her birth country, but instead found Oakland to be a broken city. Ying Ma spoke at he Conservative Forum of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, California."

Book Discussion on [FDR and the End of Empire] - C-SPAN Video Library: "Christopher O’Sullivan talked about his book, FDR and the End of Empire: The Origins of American Power in the Middle East. The 2013 Roosevelt Reading Festival was held by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in the Henry A. Wallace Visitor and Education Center in Hyde Park, New York."

Panel on Civil Liberties and Security in the Age of Terrorism - C-SPAN Video Library: "Robert Higgs, author of Delusions of Power: New Explorations of the State, War, and Economy, and Anthony Gregory, author of The Power of Habeas Corpus in America: From the King’s Prerogative to the War on Terror, talked about the protection of civil liberties in the U.S. since September 11, 2001. This event was hosted by the Independent Institute in Oakland, California."

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Henry Miller, anti-establishment rant, liberation

I was burning for expression, experience, ideas and meaning. Henry Miller's Colossus of Maroussi was tinder for the blaze to come. I had found a dog-eared copy and, knowing nothing of the man or his reputation, devoured it. Written in 1939 as all Europe prepared for inevitable war, it was superficially a travelogue and a character study of the great Greek poet George Katsimbalis. In fact it was a celebration of friendship, spirit and life – all that seemed authentic and valuable and which was on the point of being destroyed. (source infra)

How Henry Miller's anti-establishment rant liberated me from little England | John Vidal | Comment is free | The Guardian: " . . . I read the book and immediately gave it away, not bearing for it to be unshared. I had entered a new realm. I had confirmed that my responsibilities were not just to myself, or to little England, but to the imagination and to something far greater than my present parlous condition. My immediate miserableness and loneliness were as nothing. And so what if I had nothing to show for life, no house or job, money or prospects? I too was a millionaire in spirit. I too had self-belief. I walked the next day in the Jardin du Luxembourg and passed two middle-aged women wrapped in furs and with lapdogs on leads. One of the women spat at my feet and muttered, "gauchiste!" I could not remember being so pleased. Happy as a kite, I echoed Miller, shouting back: "Je m'enfou de votre civilisation!" I strode on, laughed and never looked back. A few days later, I took the train to Greece."

The Colossus of Maroussi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The Colossus of Maroussi is an impressionist travelogue by Henry Miller, which was first published in 1941 by Colt Press of San Francisco. It is set in pre-war Greece of 1939, and is ostensibly a characterization of the "Colossus" of the title, George Katsimbalis, a poet and raconteur. The work is frequently heralded as Miller's best

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Tim Ferriss, Author, Books, Amazon, BitTorrent

Author Tim Ferriss: The 4-Hour Makeover - Businessweek: "Do you regret the move to Amazon? I’m glad I did it. Publishing is changing so quickly, there’s going to be some fast-hitting bloodbaths in the next few years, and some of the traditional folks who are worried about Amazon should keep a close eye on Silicon Valley. There are little dragons growing very large that they’ll have to contend with as well. You released parts of the book on BitTorrent, right? I did. That was hugely effective. A lot of people think of BitTorrent as a tool for downloading ripped content. It’s actually being used by a lot of content producers—musicians, movie studios—to distribute content. BitTorrent users are actually more inclined to purchase content than the general population."

'Who's Sorry Now?' by Howard Jacobson
Boston Globe
They live in a nice house on the river, have nice friends, and collaborate on nice children's books. Cautious Charlie savors the joys of fidelity and predictability....

Boston Globe

Ebook sales flattening? — Tech News and Analysis - GigaOM

Om Malik
Best selling author Nicholas Carr points to the first quarter 2013 sales data from the Association of American Publishers as a testimonial for flattening of ebook ...

GigaOM

JFK book: Marilyn Monroe confessed to affair, Jackie replied 'great, I'll move out, you have all the problems' | Mail Online: "According to excerpts of the book, published by The New York Post today, Peter Lawford claimed Marilyn called Jackie and told her she was sleeping with Jack, and that he'd allegedly promised to leave his family for her. 'Marilyn, you'll marry Jack, that's great,' Jackie responded, according to the account. 'And you'll move into the White House and you'll assume the responsibilities of first lady, and I'll move out and you'll have all the problems.'"

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