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Jessica Schneider is the Austin Cultural Events Examiner for Examiner.com. She writes for The Philadelphia Inquirer and has worked as the book editor of Monsters & Critics as well as being a co-founder of www.Cosmoetica.com
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Book Review: Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People by Tim Reiterman
A detailed and thorough account of the man, his followers, his brainwashing techniques, his political influence and power.
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Book Review: A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill
A Drinking Life is a slice of Americana at its best.
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Book Review: Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and the Notorious by Alix Strauss
Death Becomes Them is a very fast and easy read, leaving the reader with merely encyclopedic details, rather than insights.
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Book Review: Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates
Disturbing the Peace is still a solid book, though it’s not one I recommend for anyone new to Yates.
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Book Review: Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story by Deborah Layton
The “utopia” in Guyana sounded ideal, except that Jim Jones eventually forced over 900 temple members to drink grape flavored “flavor aid” laced with cyanide.
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Book Review: Fiction by Ara 13
13’s humor makes Fiction an enjoyable read, which serves a greater purpose in helping to lighten the narrative when later more heavily-digestible issues are discussed.
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Book Review: A Tragic Honesty: The Life And Work of Richard Yates by Blake Bailey
With a thorough narrative not too weighed down by facts, A Tragic Honesty is one of the most readable bios on a writer I’ve read.
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Book Review: Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates
All the benefits of being a Yates novel: spare yet descriptive, insightful dialogue about seemingly “simple things,” peppered with acute observational skills for human behavior.
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Book Review: A Good School by Richard Yates
A bit of a let down, when compared to other works by this author, but it is still worth the read.
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Book Review: A Pure Drop: The Life of Jeff Buckley by Jeff Apter
Buckley lived a full life, despite it being a short one, and he has left behind a legacy and his stellar album 'Grace'.
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