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How to Write Memoir (Really)new
Not much in the way of a front-to-cover book, Natalie Goldberg's Old Friend from Far Away is an engaging, practical means to an end.
The Portland Mercury |
Courtney Ferguson |
02-14-2008 |
Nonfiction
Lamenting the Fading of Black Historynew
One of the more startling revelations of Charles Cobb Jr.'s On the Road to Freedom, out last month from Algonquin Books, is just how rapidly the physical history of the Civil Rights movement is withering before our eyes.
INDY Week |
Gerry Canavan |
02-14-2008 |
Nonfiction
Won't You Be My Neighbor?new
Vanderbilt professor believes the Golden Rule is more than just a commandment.
Nashville Scene |
Paul V. Griffith |
02-14-2008 |
Nonfiction
Thesis of 'Against the Machine' Ultimately Runs Off the Railsnew
In this a compact rant, cultural critic Lee Siegel nails some of the shibboleths of a Web 2.0 world in which too much connectivity results in social atomization.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Michael S. Gant |
02-14-2008 |
Nonfiction
Invasion of The Body Watchersnew

Aine Collier's The Humble Little Condom: A History and Jamye Waxman's Getting Off: A Woman's Guide to Masturbation examine the historical prohibitions of so-called sex without procreation.
Baltimore City Paper |
Heather Harris |
02-12-2008 |
Nonfiction
James Dawes on the Worst News in the Worldnew
Anyone concerned with human rights will come away from That The World May Know troubled and well informed.
The Texas Observer |
Thomas Palaima |
02-11-2008 |
Nonfiction
A Spicy Tributenew
Sara Roahen was four chapters into writing her just-published book -- Gumbo Tales, an exploration into the culinary wonders of New Orleans -- when Katrina hit her adopted city.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tim Whitaker |
02-11-2008 |
Nonfiction
Author Daniel Mendelsohn: On a Rescue Missionnew
The Lost is more than a testament to the detective work that sent Mendelsohn from Ukraine, to Australia, to Scandinavia, to Israel, and to the Upper East Side in search of clues to his relatives lost during the Holocaust.
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gil |
02-08-2008 |
Nonfiction
Food, Not Fadsnew
Michael Pollan takes on food science and the Western diet in his follow-up to The Omnivore's Dilemma
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
02-07-2008 |
Nonfiction
Phil Ramone on Music Productionnew
Whether you have dabbled in music production or have trouble figuring out how to work a five-disc changer stereo system, you will find Making Records down-right digestible.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ed Schrader |
02-05-2008 |
Nonfiction
About our moneynew
How do the richer get richer? By taking money from wage-earners, through tax abatements, incentives, and subsidies.
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
01-31-2008 |
Nonfiction
Ira Glass' Kings Underscores Need for Good Writingnew
The book contains pieces as diverse as can be contained in one volume, from the economics of raising a cow in Michael Pollan's "Power Steer," to the group mentality of soccer hooligans in an excerpt from Bill Buford's book Among the Thugs.
Charleston City Paper |
John Edward Royall |
01-30-2008 |
Nonfiction
Fighting the Devil in Outsider Artnew
Greg Bottoms uncovers the wild side of Christian art in The Colorful Apocalypse.
C-Ville Weekly |
Jayson Whitehead |
01-30-2008 |
Nonfiction
Sense Of Intimacy Prevailsnew
A unique sense of intimacy prevails in Pauline Chen’s first book, Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality. In this engrossing memoir, full of surgical detail, Chen, recipient of the George Longstreth Humanness Award at Yale, meditates on her experiences as a student and physician
Chicago Newcity |
Laura Castellano |
01-30-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Changing Climate of South Texas' Shows Weather's Not a Jokenew
Bypassing the innocuously academic title, the choice of cover art — an apocalyptic, peyote-button projection of gathering sand storms and fence-crashing dunes sweeping away telephone lines, railroad tracks, and the determinedly rigid frame of a desert homestead — is a revealing visceral grab.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
01-30-2008 |
Nonfiction