Derek Emerson is a college administrator who also teaches entry-level English. He has his Masters in Professional Writing from Western Michigan University and has been involved in freelance writing, editing, layout, and design work for over ten years. His main interests revolve around cultural issues including books, theatre, music, and dance. He is also the devoted and proud father of four children and astonished husband of the same woman for over 24 years.
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Book Review: Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet
Lydia Millet's short story collection is an uneven but compelling collection.
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Music Review: Hot Club of San Francisco - Hot Club Cool Yule
The Hot Club of San Francisco turns Christmas onto the gypsy jazz genre with remarkable success.
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Book Review: Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy
A collection of short stories which celebrates the gift of love without the sentimentality.
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Three Christmas Tales Retold as Graphic Novels
Three Christmas "classics" get new retellings as three established graphic novelists lend their talents to these short works.
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Book Review: The Firefly Effect: Build Teams that Capture Creativity and Catapult Results by Kimberly Douglas
Kimberly Douglas' book provides familiar business and team building issues with her options for addressing them.
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Book Review: America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story by Bruce Feiler
Bruce Feiler deftly explores the unexpected connection between Moses and America in this outstanding book.
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Book Review: Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love by Lara Vapnyar
Lara Vapnyar has created a second outstanding collection of short stories, this time with the common theme of food.
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Book Review: Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness by Dean Kuipers
Dean Kuipers gives an in depth and sympathetic look into the radical environmentalist movement through one of its most famous members.
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Book Review: Losing Season by Jack Ridl
Jack Ridl creates a book of poetry which will appeal to both lovers of poetry and those who run from it.
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Book Review: Departing at Dawn: A Novel of Argentina's Dirty War by Gloria Lisé
Gloria Lisé has created a powerful novel showing the human side of 30,000 people's disappearance in 1976 Argentina.
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