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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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The New Canon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
An autistic youngster decides to solve a crime and ends up learning that the real mystery starts at home.
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Conceptual Fiction: More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
Are the main characters in Theodore Sturgeon's More Than Human just social outcasts or the next stage in human evolution?
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Book Review: That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
Is Richard Russo a misogynist, or it really just Mom that has him riled?
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Book Review: Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
I must have run into this Pynchon fellow down at the beach. His latest novel makes that perfectly clear.
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The New Canon: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
There are no secrets in small towns... except in Empire Falls, Maine, where almost everything important is hidden from view.
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The New Canon: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Welcome to the world of Haruki Murakami, where urban realism and the fantastic are mixed in almost equal doses
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Book Review: The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
The Smithsonian wants to honor a brilliant mapmaker. But they don't know he is just twelve years old.
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Conceptual Fiction: The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
More than a half-century after C.S. Lewis wrote his Narnia stories, controversy still surrounds these popular tales.
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Conceptual Fiction: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
In a book that is half novel and half puzzle, David Mitchell weaves together six very stylized and contrasting narratives.
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Conceptual Fiction: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Seven years before the Summer of Love, Robert Heinlein already had the vibe, as he shows in this cult novel.
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