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Tim Gebhart lives in Sioux Falls, SD, where he practices law in order to provide shelter for his family, his dogs, and his books. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and his blog de guerre is A Progressive on the Prairie.
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Book Review: Get Out of the Way by Daniel Dinges
Novel predicated on using the draft to avoid a Vietnam combat zone lacks vitality.
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Book Review: The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back by Charles Pellegrino
Individuals who survived both the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and of Nagasaki help frame history of the events and their aftermath.
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Book Review: Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" by David Bianculli
A in-depth yet readable look at the influence of this short-lived prime time network television series.
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Book Review: The Appointment by Herta Müller
Bleak internal monologue awaits English readers of most recently translated work of this year's Nobel Literature laureate.
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Book Review: Sashenka by Simon Montefiore
Historian's skills and experience are suffused through a novel dealing with three tumultuous periods in Russian history.
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Book Review: The Country Where No One Ever Dies by Ornela Vorpsi
Novel's well written vignettes of life in Communist Albania ultimately fall short of creating broad insight into its people.
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Book Review: But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer's fact-based but impressionistic fictional essays about great jazz musicians are a form of literary jazz.
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Book Review: Tomorrow! by Philip Wylie
Reissued 1954 novel immerses reader in the feel of the Cold War era.
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Book Review: Invisible by Paul Auster
Paul Auster's writing skills draw in and hold readers of his 15th novel.
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Book Review: In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp by Er Tai Gao
Chinese intellectual's memoir reflects how even aesthetics are perceived as a threat by totalitarian regimes.
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