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Ted Gioia is a writer and musician. He is the author of Delta Blues, The History of Jazz and, most recently, The Birth (and Death) of the Cool.
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Book Review: Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
A Field of Dreams cricket novel turns into a enigmatic crime story in Joseph O'Neill's Netherland
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Book Review: Lush Life by Richard Price
A late night robbery goes awry and the detective heading the case looks on in dismay as this event blows up into a media circus.
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Book Review: Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff writes so well, you won't notice that he is breaking all the rules of storytelling
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Book Review: Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock
Can a whole town be filled with drugged up, narcissistic, scheming, vengeful, self-destructive losers?
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Book Review: Beautiful Children by Charles Bock
A debut novelist explores the seamier side of Las Vegas.
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Book Review: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brook imagines the history of a mysterious manuscript in her latest novel.
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Book Review: The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
The Queen of England has discovered that she likes to read books - but does the nation approve?
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Book Review: Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
Two swashbuckling friends fight their way through Asia Minor in Michael Chabon's post-modern adventure novel.
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Satire: Hamlet Wore Ladies Underwear and Other Literary Secrets Outed
What happens when fictional characters lead lives outside their books?
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Book Review: The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
What happens when the love of your life is a very bad girl?
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