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Trash Fiction Corner: David Baldaaci’s ‘The Hit’
Books Comments May 01, 2013 8:07pmBOOK: The Hit, by David Baldacci, Grand Central Publishing, 400 pagesBEST-SELLER STATUS: Too early to tell; it was published April 23, and the latest sales figures reflected by the New York Times...
A novelist’s memoir of his split life could use a little more life
Books Comments May 01, 2013 7:46pmAleksandar Hemon might have titled his new essay collection Life Before and After Wartime, but he settled for The Book of My Lives.The plural speaks to his having grown up in Bosnia and matured in...
Name that poet
Books Comments May 01, 2013 6:53pmIn a recent essay for The Millions, a literary website, humorist Patrick Wensink — honoring April as National Poetry Month — wrote about his lifelong aversion to poetry. This is where Las Vegas comes...
Book tells the convoluted tale of a gangster and his FBI pals
Books Comments Updated: May 01, 2013 7:50pmIn 1999, the FBI placed four men on its Ten Most Wanted list. The first, James Kopp, who murdered an abortion doctor, was apprehended in France in 2001. The third, Angel Resendiz, a notorious serial...
Plant yourself with ‘Eating Vegan in Vegas’
Books Comments Apr 10, 2013 8:03pmHas Vegas evolved to where local diners can have one restaurant-prepared vegan meal per day for a year? That’s the premise behind herbivore Paul Graham’s new book, Eating Vegan in Vegas, inspired by...
Review: Karen Russell shows why there’s still life in the short story form
Books Comments Mar 27, 2013 4:44pmEvery so often, in order to fill a few inches of space or post something to a blog, a writer will either declare that the short story is in the midst of a renaissance or that the “short story...
Review: ‘How Literature Saved My Life’ finds its author desperate to escape his numbness
Books Comments Mar 20, 2013 6:11pmAfter I got over my irritation with David Shields’ new meditation/memoir, How Literature Saved My Life, I discovered that he’d written a very sad, very lonely book. Shields seems to see himself as...
Review: ‘Going Clear’ offers harrowing look at Church of Scientology
Books Comments Updated: Mar 13, 2013 3:53pmIn No Man Knows My History, Fawn Brodie’s excellent biography of Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she observes that Smith’s boundless imagination would have...
Author Cory Doctorow on teen imagination, paranoia and writing
Books Comments Feb 27, 2013 5:47pmIn Cory Doctorow’s novels for young adults, teenage “techno-ninjas” do battle with the powers that be, often represented by the Department of Homeland Security. Little Brother (2008) depicted a...
Four random tidbits from the new book ‘Showgirls of Las Vegas’
Books Comments Feb 20, 2013 5:33pm• Dancing girls arrived on the Strip with the El Rancho Vegas, the very first hotel: “These proto-showgirls spent mere minutes on stage, and with contracts lasting only two weeks, they appeared to be...
