by bertbaby | Dec 18, 2013 | Book Reviews
Fifteen highlights from a glorious year for imaginative literature.
by bertbaby | Dec 18, 2013 | Book Reviews
“A Peruvian investor recently purchased the Packard Plant, the iconic Detroit ruin, closed since the nineteen-fifties and sprawling over 40 acres. Fernando Palazuelo, the proud new owner, forked over $400,000 for the factory, which he described to Bloomberg News...
by bertbaby | Dec 18, 2013 | Book Reviews
Containing what our own James Parker called “the thin-air atmosphere of an artistic high”, Kate Atkinson’s emotionally taut thriller of Ursula Todd – a woman whose birth and rebirth change history – has been named one of Barnes and...
by bertbaby | Dec 18, 2013 | Book Reviews
Peter Baker’s candid and revealing endeavor into the political strategies and internal conflicts of the Bush-Cheney administration is one of the year’s most talked-about histories, and one of Barnes and Noble’s Best New Nonfiction Books of...
by bertbaby | Dec 18, 2013 | Book Reviews
Place is so much more than topography or social fault lines, political history and census data. Capturing capital-P place – the soul, the machine, the people, the ethos thrumming just below the surface – is one of the most challenging aspects of the...
by bertbaby | Dec 18, 2013 | Book Reviews
A Grandmaster of Science Fiction offers his favorite folktale, and thoughts about the roots of his work.
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