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Book Review: Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
In all modesty, Anna Quindlen has nothing to be modest about.
Read More »Book Review: Way Down: Playing Bass with Elvis, Dylan, the Doors, and More by Jerry Scheff
Without descending into "tell-all" sensationalism, Way Down is an entertaining and informative memoir about Jerry Scheff as a working musician.
Read More »Book Review: Fug You – A History of the Counterculture by Ed Sanders
Fugs leader still recalls life in the radical underground during the sixties.
Read More »Book Review: More Confessions of a Trauma Junkie: My Life as a Nurse Paramedic by Sherry Jones Mayo
More Confessions balances humor and trauma in a real-life portrait of Emergency Services workers.
Read More »Book Review: The Commandant: An Account by the First Commanding Officer of Auschwitz by Rudolf Hoess, ed. by Jürg Amann
Condensing the autobiography of the commander of Auschwitz into a 16-page "monologue" doesn't make the horror any less.
Read More »Interview With Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, Authors of The Vow: The True Events that Inspired the Movie, Part 1
"Our heart is in the book as we wrote it and it shares the personal details of journey."
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘BOB: Blessed Be the Dysfunction that Binds’
This powerful one-woman show about life with a mentally disturbed brother deserves a larger venue than the tiny 78th Street Theatre Lab.
Read More »Book Review: Devils & Blue Dresses: My Wild Ride as a Rock and Roll Legend by Mitch Ryder
Detroit’s Mitch Ryder writes a hard-edged memoir of fame, pain, and rock and roll survival.
Read More »Book Review: The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks by Kathleen Flinn
In world where some drink Red Bull for breakfast as an “energy drink,” there is a better way to eat.
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