Dateline: Southern California
Weblog: blogcritics.org/writer/gordon_hauptfleisch
Articles: 343
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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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of May 25, 2009
Michael Connelly, Lisa See, Kim Harrison, Michael Scott, China Mieville; Rachel Cusk, I.F. Stone, Mishna Wolff, 'Untimely Death in Africa', 'Guts', 'The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter'... '
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Liner Notables: Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue
"He had no brakes, and he didn’t think about consequences ... That makes for passionate music, but it can be a hard way to live."
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of May 18, 2009
Lee Child, Raymond Khoury, Mary Balogh, Ellen Schreiber; Larry King, Ted Kennedy, Overachiever Walter Kirn's Undereducation, 'Appeasing Islam', The 'Predictably Irrational', 'Edible History'...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of May 11, 2009
Better-food Nation, Calling out the Coast Guard, Swayin' with Swayze, the Dead and Divine with Smith and Van Praagh; Sandford, Leonard, Hart, MacHale, Preston, Davis...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of May 4, 2009
Palahniuk, Pears, Parker, Tolkien, Charlaine Harris; Paul Newman, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A-Rod, Caligula, 'Horse Soldiers', First Lady Fashion, Jen Lancaster in Plaid...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of April 27, 2009
Oscar Wilde's Library, Mr. & Mrs. Sherlock Holmes, Elizabeth Berg, Fern Michaels Macomber, Patterson; Judy Garland Life, Bill Gates Sr., Straw, Helprin, Cold War/Hot Nukes...
"The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing" puts one man in the grave and another in the bughouse.
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of April 20, 2009
Even kindergartners get the brews. Patterson, Twain, Baldacci, Johansen, Quick; Monica Seles Gets a Grip, Ruth Reichl's Mother, Winning a Cosmic War, Lee Woodruff's Life-in-Progress...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of April 13, 2009
Lisa Scottoline, Luanne Rice, Tamora Pierce, Ted Dekker; Tori Spelling, Kathie Lee Gifford, Philip Gulley's Indiana Childhood, Kate is Enough, Abigail and John Adams...
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Pulp Pages: The Third Murderer (serialized as “The Flame” and Race Williams) by Carroll John Daly
“I didn’t like his face and I told him so,” he snappishly starts... Later on, Race reflects, “Maybe I’m not so hot at repartee.”
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