Nothing like wintertime for curling up with a good book. Preferably in a Gothic reading room, with snow outside.
It’s been a while since we did a Book Pub, so this one covers books we read (or abandoned reading) sometime in the last couple of years.
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Scour your Kindles and library records and tell us what books you read this past year(ish), and whether/how you liked them. It’s helpful if you can add a link to the book’s Amazon page, or to its page on the author’s or publisher’s site. Continue reading
So, uh, it’s been a while. Continue reading
House of Cards is perhaps the most popular reboot of an ancient failed TV show since the 2009 movie version of Star Trek. Let’s look back at the trippy oddball period piece that inspired the Netflix hit, the 1975 ABC series that was based on Rex Jackson’s novels about ruthless politician Frank Underwood. Continue reading
Hello and welcome again to Book Pub!
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If you’ve heard about the backlash targeted at Lena Dunham recently, than you may have read a myriad of reactions to one singular passage Dunham describes in her memoir, Not That Kind of Girl . Dunham recounts an episode as a seven-year old where she touched her sister’s genitals and allegedly found pebbles therein — supposedly put there by the younger sibling as a prank. The description is graphic, visceral, and perhaps asks more questions than it answers about Dunham’s childhood, despite her claim that this was among the things she would do. Continue reading
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Please have mercy on my soul as I attempt to fill Lucky’s shoes. Continue reading
On February 20th, 2014, Matt Taibbi sent shockwaves through the media landscape, announcing that he was leaving his long-time position at Rolling Stone for a new venture working alongside Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Laura Poitras. Although Taibbi’s site has yet to launch, he has had time to finish and release his newest book “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
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