by bertbaby | Nov 18, 2013 | Book Reviews
An acclaimed bestseller throughout Europe, this wry study of the titular year’s biggest names – Ford, Chaplin, Chanel, Prada, Proust, Stavinsky – depicts a cultural revolution undercut by the destruction of World War I that soon followed.
by bertbaby | Nov 18, 2013 | Book Reviews
Jeff VanderMeer offers the world’s first “illustrated guide to creating imaginative fiction”, with advice from contributors George R.R. Martin, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. LeGuin, and many more.
by bertbaby | Nov 18, 2013 | Book Reviews
November 18: “I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.”
by bertbaby | Nov 16, 2013 | Book Reviews
November 16: “The vogue has risen into a cult; and the cult, embracing the cultured masses, has deepened into a wave…”
by bertbaby | Nov 15, 2013 | Book Reviews
In Paul Rome’s rousing debut novel, a New York labor lawyer grows intensely attached to his cases (an abused receptionist, a teacher who fears deportation) and his young new assistant. A taut and stylistically vanguard legal drama.
by bertbaby | Nov 15, 2013 | Book Reviews
How a civilization built itself out of wood pulp and ink.
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