RULES OF CIVILITY
AUTHOR | AMOR TOWLES PUBLISHER | VIKING ADULT RELEASE | 7.26.11 In the pre-War Manhattan of Rules of Civility, the top hobby was martinis, followed by insouciance and repartee. Such clever...
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Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction On March 11, 2011, a tsunami hit off the coast of Tohoku, Japan. The tsunami caused a massive amount of devastation to the Tohoku region, but out of the devastation...
View ArticleBILL’S BOOK CORNER: BILL INSULTS KEITH RICHARDS
Hey Dig. Here’s my piece for this week. I can’t look at it again, I’m too tired. I hate to be dramatic but I got hit by a car this morning. It happened while I was departing the scene of a property...
View ArticleREVIEW: ME THE PEOPLE BY KEVIN BLEYER
In Kevin Bleyer’s estimation, the Constitution of the United States has died the death of a few major cuts: “It has utterly failed in its simplest of duties: to solve all our problems, secure all our...
View ArticleREVIEW: A GREATER MONSTER BY DAVID DAVID KATZMAN
A Greater Monster comes at the reader phalanges sputtering and mandibles agape, ready to suck out your spinal marrow and replace it with saltwater taffy and gummy worms. This book will alter your...
View ArticleREVIEW: A MONSTER CALLS BY PATRICK NESS
The first thing that struck me was the cover art. Look, I’m shallow; I’m only attracted to good-looking books. Like really good-looking. Don’t get me wrong, if everyone insists some ugly book’s got a...
View ArticleREVIEW: FEED BY M. T. ANDERSON
“A chilling and darkly writ satire that seesaws effortlessly from sardonically funny to unexpectedly heartbreaking.” September will mark the tenth anniversary of Cambridge author M.T. Anderson’s...
View ArticleBOOK ‘EM: WHAT’S WRONG WITH HOMOSEXUALITY? BY JOHN CORVINO
Those who are inclined to answer the question posed by the title of the new book by John Corvino fall into two groups: those who answer “nothing at all” and those who answer “a whole host of immoral...
View ArticleREVIEW: THE STUD BOOK BY MONICA DRAKE
“Blind hermaphrodites find each other in the dark. It happens all the time.” —from the first page of Monica Drake’s The Stud Book. It was with that line, a description of earthworms, that I knew I was...
View ArticleBOOK ‘EM: CONSTITUTIONAL MYTHS BY RAY RAPHAEL
Ray Raphael’s new book Constitutional Myths is about how average folks, scholars, and Supreme Court justices misunderstand the Constitution as a result of incomplete or selective knowledge of its...
View ArticleBOOK ‘EM: CHASING GIDEON BY KAREN HOUPPERT
One review of Karen Houppert’s Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice (published by The New Press) describes it as “a book of nightmares.” Sure enough, not long after finishing the...
View ArticleBOOK ‘EM: LOUDER THAN HELL: THE DEFINITIVE ORAL HISTORY OF METAL
Authors Katherine Turman and Jon Wiederhorn assemble the history of metal layer-by-layer with the words of those who were lucky or unlucky enough to have seen, heard, tasted, and smelled it. Although I...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: GRIPPED BY JASON DONNELLY
“I came on my cat today, again.” Thus begins Jason Donnelly’s tightly wound satire Gripped: Your Personality Is What’s Holding You Back. This slightly alarming opening salvo is followed quickly by,...
View ArticleTHE SABOTEUR: A VIVID TALE OF COURAGE IN THE FACE OF NAZI FORCE
If and when The Saboteur gets made into a major motion picture, an action-smacked WWII spy flick for the ages, the screenwriter will likely find the story of Robert de La Rochefoucauld easy to...
View ArticleTHE SABOTEUR: A VIVID TALE OF COURAGE IN THE FACE OF NAZI FORCE
Like so many masters of deep research and compelling narrative historical nonfiction before him, Kix leaves very little for the reader to imagine on their own. Some of the descriptions are extremely...
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