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Written by Larry Clow
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Wednesday, 11 April 2007 |
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dangerous dames, cynical reporters and the first graphic novel
There's
usually a certain luster that comes with being the first person to
create something significant—it’s all glory and accolades and glowing
mentions in the footnotes of history. But for some, being first doesn’t
get them anything. They’re in the wrong place at the wrong time and
their accomplishments are overlooked.
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Written by Harvey Shepard
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Wednesday, 28 March 2007 |
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“The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts”
by Milan Kundera, translated from the French by Linda Asher
Harper Collins, 2006
168 pages
Many adjectives have been used to describe Milan
Kundera’s writings: dazzling, brilliant, exhilarating, wise, witty,
sly, satirical, subversive, provocative, philosophical, erotic,
spiritual, profound, playful—and, they’re all true.
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Written by Liberty Hardy
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Wednesday, 28 March 2007 |
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Heart-Shaped Box
by Joe Hill
Harper Collins, 2007
384 pages
In 1991, Nirvana kicked down the doors of the music scene with
their second release, “Nevermind.” For several years, the world had
been wrapped in a cocoon of musical mediocrity, things coming and going
without much notice, unless you happened to be caught in the tractor
beams of New Kids on the Block. But with the first few strains of
“Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Nirvana breathed new life into our stereos,
our brains and our lives, making us dust off MTV and giving our parents
another reason to hate us.
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Written by Harvey Shepard
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Wednesday, 31 January 2007 |
After This
by Alice McDermott
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
279 pages
When we first meet Mary in Alice McDermott’s new novel, she is 30,
“just out of church (a candle lit every lunch hour, still, although the
war was over)” and working as a secretary in a Manhattan office. She
lives with her aging father and bachelor brother and has “no husband in
sight.” Though tending toward the romantic, she fears that “(her) body
(was) not meant for mortal sin or a man’s attention.”
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Written by Courtney Denison
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Wednesday, 24 January 2007 |
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Mr. Wrong
edited by Harriet Brown
Ballantine Books, 2007
251 pages
Just in time for another torturous Valentine’s Day comes “Mr.
Wrong,” a collection of 24 essays by notable female writers who all
recount stories of less-than-perfect relationships.
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