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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: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini depicts the plight of two women against the turbulent backdrop of recent Afghan history.
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Book Review: Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo explores 9-11 and its aftermath in his latest novel.
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Book Review: Four Novels of the 1960s by Philip K. Dick
A pulp sci-fi writer gets included in the prestigious Library of America.
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Book Review: After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami exposes the dark side of Tokyo that emerges during the hours from midnight until dawn.
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Book Review: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
One of America’s finest novelists dazzles with a Zionist Da Vinci Code in his latest novel.
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Cormac McCarthy Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Road
Shhhh, don’t tell anyone, but a science fiction novel just won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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Book Review: The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
A brilliant work of imaginative fiction in the spirit of Neuromancer and Snow Crash.
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Remembering Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
Kurt Vonnegut expanded our horizons and opened up our hearts.
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Book Review: You Don’t Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem tries to write the Great Rock Novel.
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Robert Heinlein at One Hundred
Almost twenty years after his death, Robert Heinlein still stirs controversy.
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