Feature: The Early Word

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Gordon Hauptfleisch

Kevin Eagan

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• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of April 29

  Tenet, Zevon, Nicklaus, Einstein, Kingsolver, Chabon, McGreevey, Dale Brown, Elizabeth Berg, Punk Rock Dad, Weird Virginia, Bastards of the Party, and then some...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Apr 29, 2007

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of April 15, 2007

  Tolkein, Bernard Goldberg, Crazies and Wimps, the other Higgins Clark, "Galveston oh Galveston..." and then some...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Apr 16, 2007

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of April 8, 2007

  Einstein with his memories in a trunk, Iggy's lust for life; Anne Perry, Karen Robards, Stuart Woods, Edith Wharton, and then some.

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Apr 09, 2007

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of April 1, 2007

  New Mary Higgins Clark and ol' time Revelations, the Rise of Fear 'n' Loathing and the Fall of the Roman Empire, and then some...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Apr 01, 2007

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of March 25, 2007

  Gone with the Beatles, Bradley, Flawless, Feist, Frauds, Hoag, Hart, Spies, Sins, Satan, Sunday, Singing Cowboys, Kellerman's and Robards' Obsession, and then some....

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Mar 26, 2007

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of March 18, 2007

  Sandford, Joshua Ferris, DeLay, Religious Literacy, Cultural Amnesia, the Cigarette Century, Cigars and Clinton, and then some...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Mar 21, 2007

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of March 11, 2007

  Spring forward, fall behind: Forget sleep - you've lost an hour of reading. Some quick considerations include Perry, Lethem, Salvatore, Arendt, Riefenstahl, Chagall.

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Mar 11, 2007

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of February 25, 2007

  T. Jefferson Parker, Crais, Vollman, Dr. Dre, Hitler's Headquarters, Forensic Files, Kinsella, Weir, Marley. But wait, there's more...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Feb 26, 2007

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of February 19, 2007

  Cook's new book, Robb on the jobb, a new spin on Finn, Rice on ice, Bush comes to shove. You kids get off my lawn!

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Feb 18, 2007

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of February 12, 2007

  From Smiley to Steele, the Civil War to the Cold War - it's quality of books over quantity of titles this week.

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Feb 11, 2007

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of February 5, 2007

  Parker, Greeley, Delinsky, Dexter, Earle, Frayn, Chalmers Johnson, Peggy Orenstein, Still Life with Husband, The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man.

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Feb 04, 2007

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of January 29, 2007

  It’s Oprah’s world - you’re just reading books in it. This time Oprah's Book Club required reading is a new edition of Sidney Poitier’s memoir.

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jan 28, 2007

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of January 22, 2007

  Bookstore-bound: Paul Auster, Norman Mailer, Phillip K. Dick, Jayne Ann Krentz, Bernard Cornwell, Terry McAuliffe, and then some...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jan 21, 2007

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of January 15, 2007

  Upcoming: Amis, Grimes, D'Souza, Fairstein, Kellerman, Moore, Boeing, India, the Underground Railroad, Moore - and more...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jan 14, 2007

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of January 9, 2007

  Coming up: Ehrenreich, Evanovich, Obama, Jance, Dancing in the Streets, gumshoes and gurus, lunacy and lust, Robert Stone and RN Patterson.

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jan 07, 2007

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of January 1

  For those bound and determined to exchange those indeterminately-given gifts, there are a few notable books for consideration. A very few.

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jan 01, 2007

• The Early Word: New Art and Photography Books (in Song)

  Monkeys, Manet, Mars, Doodles, Dogs, Deadwood, Anime, Addams, Abstract Art Theft, Born to Gauguin, Leibowitz, Secrets, Scribbles, Scratches, Squiggles & Scrawls.

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Dec 08, 2006

• The Early Word: New Non-Fiction Books (an O.J.-Free Zone)

  New Books of Note: Disney, Carnegie, Hughes, Mandela, Bryson, Powell, Ghost Maps, Lincoln, Reagan, Kagan, Truth, Home, Worldchanging...

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Nov 18, 2006

• The Early Word: Calendars - Far Side is Back! Stitch 'n' Bitch, Retro Lemony, Ying-Yang, Miro Miro, Bice Bice Bo Bice, Speed! Lust! Madness! Hey Lady!

  The Salvador Dali Engagement Calendar: Because you can’t always rely on the persistence of your memory.

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Nov 04, 2006

• The Early Word: New And Upcoming Children's Books, Plus One $150 Doorstop

  Lynne Cheney, in Our 50 States: A Family Adventure, takes us on a tour of America's greatest Undisclosed Locations.

  News by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Oct 16, 2006