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Bagel King Noah Alper Serves Memories and Advice in a New Booknew
Two decades before he founded the bagel company that he would eventually sell for $100 million, Noah Alper was locked up in a mental hospital. Shocked to find their student son in a mania exacerbated by drugs, lack of sleep and the chaos of the Vietnam years, his parents had committed him.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
12-09-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Azar Nafisi Meets Her Strangernew
Nafisi looks backward down the road of her life with an enormous set of binoculars, and attempts to zoom in on everything there — four generations of a family, over the course of a century, in a culturally and politically fluxing country — with great candidness, and generous attention to detail.
Boston Phoenix |
Caitlin E. Curran |
01-22-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Laurell K. Hamilton, the Mistress of Horrornew
Nobody writes vampire novels the way the St. Louis author does -- and yes, there's lots of sex.
Riverfront Times |
Aimee Levitt |
11-21-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Audioshave: What's Lost in the Abridgmentnew
Nobody really likes abridgments of audiobooks. The listeners who don't mind them are generally unaware of how much they're missing.
The Village Voice |
Lawrence Block |
01-03-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
