"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
Gordon Hauptfleisch - Page 33
Dateline: Southern California
Weblog: blogcritics.org/writer/gordon_hauptfleisch
Articles: 346
Dateline: Southern California
Weblog: blogcritics.org/writer/gordon_hauptfleisch
Articles: 346
Gordon Hauptfleisch is a Blogcritics Books Editor, freelance writer, and book reviewer for the San Diego Union Tribune. For many years he worked in and managed bookstores and record stores. Email him and he'll stop talking in the third-person.
He's also an enigmatic visionary of unfathomable secrets and many a guise, or at least he plays one in his delusions of grandeur. Other than that he doesn't like talking about himself.
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Book Review: The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
Tired of living vicariously through his delusions, a young Russian looks for love and riches in all the wrong places.
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Book Review: The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest To Become The Smartest Person In The World by A. J. Jacobs
Doing the unthinkable for a kitchen-sink-and-all account about reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. Come along for the ride, from point a-ak to point zywiek.
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Book Review: John Henry Days by Colin Whitehead
The past is past, the present one big deadline, thinks a journalist covering a backwater gig--until the forces of history and hope intervene.
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Book Review: The Writer And The World: Essays by V. S. Naipaul
The Nobel Prize-winner draws upon his globe-trotting wanderlust to assemble an assortment of all-over-the-map essays bursting with insight and evocation.
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Book Review: The Inner Circle by T. C. Boyle
Pioneering sex researcher Alfred Kinsey quantifies the beast with two backs by way of charts and graphs, and displays some beastly behavior of his own.
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Book Review: The Half-Mammals of Dixie by George Singleton
Dogpatch in Dockers, Confederates in anger management: The South will rise again - and get a rise out of you in this superb story collection.
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Top Ten Really Annoying Lyrics: Volume One--The 1970s
I write the songs that make the whole world cringe . . .
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Book Review: Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan
The captivating and multi-dimensional award-winner raises eyebrows and questions in a nuanced exploration of guilt and foregiveness, imagination and "the strangeness of the here-and-now."
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Book Review: Vermeer In Bosnia: Selected Writings by Lawrence Weschler
Cultural comedies and political tragedies from a renaissance and reconnaissance man keen on tying up the world's loose ends.
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Book Review: Jesse James - Last Rebel Of The Civil War by T.J. Stiles
A Robin Hood stealing from the rich to give to the poor, or 19th-century hood robbing to give to poor little me and mine?
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