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Book Review: Songs from the Black Chair – A Memoir of Mental Interiors by Charles Barber
This well-written memoir provides an excellent firsthand account of mental illness and its effects and consequences.
Read More »Book Review: Adjusting Sights by Haim Sabato
...we need to adjust our sights away from fighting and lift them up to a more worthy goal.
Read More »Interview with A.J. Jacobs, Author of The Know-It-All (Part Two)
"Oysters can change sex according to the temperature of the water. I always knew there was something emasculating about warm baths."
Read More »Interview with A.J. Jacobs, Author of The Know-It-All (Part One)
"When I was a kid, I was under the bizarre delusion that I was the smartest boy in the world." - A.J. Jacobs
Read More »Book Review: Take Me To A Circus Tent – The Jefferson Airplane Flight Manual By Craig Fenton
As rock books go, Craig Fenton's meticulously researched Jefferson Airplane flight manual is just about as complete as it gets.
Read More »Book Review: Johnny U: The Life and Times of John Unitas by Tom Callahan
This look at Hall of Fame quarterback John Unitas displays the difference between a "sports biography" and a standard biography.
Read More »Book Review: R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country
Cartoonist R. Crumb’s trading card series of blues, jazz and country tributes get reprinted in a single volume.
Read More »Book Review: Lee Morgan: His Life, Music and Culture by Tom Perchard
Music, drugs, race, culture and politics all play a role in this first biography of jazz trumpet player Lee Morgan.
Read More »Book Review: A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby avoids the Stephen King Syndrome.
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