by bertbaby | Dec 6, 2013 | Book Reviews
“It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A...
by bertbaby | Dec 6, 2013 | Book Reviews
December 6: “I watched him plant a weeping willow in the backyard. It seemed to symbolize his sorrow for the direction our country had taken.”
by bertbaby | Dec 5, 2013 | Book Reviews
A fresh collection from the creator of Sam Spade and the Thin Man reveals a range that went beyond hard-boiled.
by bertbaby | Dec 5, 2013 | Book Reviews
Musician Tracey Thorn on punk rock, feminism, motherhood, the radical sound of quiet, and her new memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen.
by bertbaby | Dec 5, 2013 | Book Reviews
December 5: “It’s common these days for memoirs of childhood to concentrate on some dark secret within the author’s ostensibly happy family…. Memoir in America is an atrocity arms race.”
by bertbaby | Dec 4, 2013 | Book Reviews
The creator of Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller on jazz, comparing American mystery writers to Scandinavian ones, and how crime novels report from society’s front lines.
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