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Over at Omnivoracious , hosted by Amazon.com. Only one post is up so far and it's annoyingly music-centric. Why all the flashing lights and filler for your readings, James Frey? Why can't you just get up there and, um, READ? We have grown grumpy...
Every L-train-riding Brooklynite’s favorite author, JONATHAN LETHEM , is back on tour for his follow-up to 2003’s Fortress of Solitude . You Don’t Love Me Yet is a departure from the author’s native New York: this time around, the setting is the smoggy...
Mrs. Andy Richter, a/k/a actress and writer SARAH THYRE , was dubbed the “family liar” by her father almost as soon as she learned to talk. In her attempt to live up to this infamous nickname, high jinks and hilarity ensued, and she resurrects all her...
The author of The Piano Tuner , DANIEL MASON , follows up his bestselling debut with yet another journey story. The Harvard grad’s second book, A Far Country , trails 14-year-old Isabel on her voyage from a rural area of her impoverished country to the...
Political satirist and diehard libertarian P.J. O’ROURKE , author of such self-explanatory gems as Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts To Explain the Entire U.S. Government and Peace Kills: America’s New Fun Imperialism , winds up for a new...
SMELL THE GLOVE An economically depressed small town in New York lobbies to be recognized as a Native American tribe (the Filaquonsett) so it can build a casino to bring in revenue. This pisses off the neighboring Native American tribe and casino, who...
SO LONG, AND GOOD LUCK Edward R. Murrow hosted the first This I Believe radio program in the 1950s, which he introduced by musing, “What truths can a human being afford to furnish the cluttered nervous room of his mind with, when he has no real idea how...
It’s not that THOMAS CAHILL writes the Reader’s Digest version of history, but he does have the ability to cut through the doldrums of thesis speak and sprinkle in more than a few pop-culture comparisons. Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism...
