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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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of March 9, 2009
House of Night, Lippman, Cussler & DuBrul, Eisler, Doc Ford, Vine; 'Joker One', Cheever bio, Russell Brand, Korn's Fieldy, Ecology, 'Jihad, Jefferson and Jesus'...
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Every Scratch, Every Click, Every Heartbeat: The Beatles - "Please Please Me"
What really clinched the deal for Beatles’ fandom was my instantaneously rapturous reaction to the giddy pop thrill of “Please Please Me.”
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of March 2, 2009
Archer, Palahniuk, Picoult, Littell; 'Bridging the Gap', Mad March, the Gay Ban, Global Poverty, 'Two Remarkable Families'...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of February 23, 2009
Danielle Steel, J.D. Robb, Robert B. Parker, Kim Harrison, Lincoln Child; Rolling Stones, Abraham Lincoln, Losing My Religion in America, Deadly Obsession in the Amazon...
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Every Scratch, Every Click, Every Heartbeat: Bruce Springsteen - "Girls in Their Summer Clothes" and "This Life"
A balanced sense of melancholy and inspiration is imparted to Bruce Springsteen’s recent Brian Wilson-inspired tracks.
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of February 16, 2009
Binchy, Delinsky, Wiesel, Winspear, Greeley, Strieber, Niven & Pournelle; Ida Wells, Ted Kennedy, Obama, Vincente Minnelli, Biology of Consciousness, War, Criminal Brotherhoods, Brody & Beyond...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of February 9, 2009
Maltese Gumshoes, King Lear's 'Fool', T.C. Boyle on Frank Lloyd Wright, T. Jefferson Parker, Linda Fairstein; Thomas Ricks on General Petraeus, Obama's Historic Front Pages...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of February 2, 2009
Torre and the Yankees, A Gilded Age Secret, Home Education, Lincoln, the Romanovs, Koontz's Frankenstein, Patterson, Niven & Pournelle...
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Every Scratch, Every Click, Every Heartbeat: Van Morrison - "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)"
It’ll take you by surprise, first with Van, sans band, before the full-swingin’ kickapoo joy juice hits ya: “Jackie Wilson said / It was ‘reet-petite’…”
Frank Lloyd Wright, with designs of a different kind in mind, and "The Women" who loved him.
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