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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

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