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Book Review: ‘I Am I Am I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death’ by Maggie O’Farrell
In her memoir 'I Am I Am I Am', Maggie O'Farrell describes seventeen ways she almost died.
Read More »Book Review: ‘After the Eclipse’ by Sarah Perry
'After the Eclipse' by Sarah Perry is a beautiful but gut-wrenching memoir about a daughter paying homage to her mother's life twelve years after it was brutally taken.
Read More »Interview: Motivational Speaker Allan McDougall, Author of ‘Breaking Through: Discovering the Riches Within’
"I'm very leery of people saying, 'We're sending them to rehab and in 30 days, they'll be fine.' That's setting them up to fail."
Read More »Book Review: ‘A Fort of Nine Towers’ by Qais Abar Omar
Qais Akbar Omar’s 'A Fort of Nine Towers' is a remarkable book.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality’ by Jacob Tomsky
Honest and eye-opening and definitely worth picking up.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident’ by Bill Ayers
Bill Ayers examines at the experience of being labeled an "unrepentant domestic terrorist" during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Elsewhere’ by Richard Russo
Pulitzer Price winning novelist memories of life with mother are not always warm and happy.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen’ by Al Jourgensen with Jon Wiederhorn
A rock and roll tale that is dirtier than that of Motley Crue’s 'The Dirt.'
Read More »Book Review: Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies by James Wolcott
Lucking Out is a sometimes brilliant and sometimes disappointing memoir of New York in the '70s by critic James Wolcott.
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