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Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Please Stop Microwaving Your Library Books

September 21, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments CDC, Free Library of Philadelphia, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Library Book, microwave, RFID, twitter

A COVID-era public service announcement

AUTHOR STUFF FICTION NON-FICTION

I Went to a Book Fair During the Pandemic…In Lisbon

September 14, 2020September 20, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments António Lobo Antunes, Book Expo, Feira do Livro, Frankfurt Book Fair, João Tordo, Jose Saramago, Lisbon, Livros do Brasil

Portugal’s annual literary event, Feira do Livro, carries on as others fold

Biography NON-FICTION

‘Ching Ling Foo: America’s First Chinese Superstar’

September 9, 2020September 11, 2020 Frank Wu 0 Comments Ching Ling Foo, Harry Houdini, Samuel Porteous

A magician more famous (and better-compensated) than Harry Houdini

Memoir NON-FICTION

Mark Lanegan’s Beautifully Sad Memoir of Drugs and Despair

September 3, 2020September 16, 2020 Ken Kurson 1 Comment Alice in Chains, Bruce Pavitt, Courtney Love, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Jerry Cantrell, Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Lee Connor, Liam Gallagher, memoir, Screaming Trees, Sing Backwards and Weep, Sub Pop, The Gun Club, Van Connor, Vocalist Mark Lanegan

Screaming Trees vocalist sings a powerful story

FICTION NON-FICTION Politics

Powell’s Books Takes a Stand

September 2, 2020September 4, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments ABA, Amazon, Bevis, Chatwin Books, Powell's, Skylight Books, The Strand

Portland indie giant will no longer sell on Amazon

NON-FICTION

‘Twilight of the Gods’

September 1, 2020September 3, 2020 Wendell Jamieson 0 Comments Battle of Leyte Gulf, Curtis LeMay, Hiroshima, Ian W. Toll, Kamikaze, Pacific War Trilogy, Tokyo, Twilight of the Gods, Wendell Jamieson

The magisterial final volume of Ian W. Toll’s Pacific War trilogy

Memoir Music NON-FICTION

‘Rockers’ Book Brings to Life the Making of the Legendary Reggae Film

August 27, 2020August 28, 2020 Ron Hart 1 Comment Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Dillinger, Grace Jones, Jessica Lange, King Tubby, Rockers, Ted Bafaloukos

The golden age of rude boys, from Jamaica to New York and beyond

FICTION NON-FICTION Politics

Literary Agency Fires Agent for TERF-y Tweets

August 26, 2020September 1, 2020 Katie Smith 1 Comment Anya Palmer, Bethany Baptiste, Jesse Singal, Matt Belford, Sasha White, Tobias Literary Agency

Fired agent’s supporters flooded the hashtag #IStandWithSashaWhite

NON-FICTION Politics

How James Baldwin Can Help Us ‘Begin Again’

August 20, 2020August 19, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Begin Again, Eddie Glaude, James Baldwin, Jr., The Fire Next Time

Urgent lessons from a not-distant past

NON-FICTION Politics

Is this the ‘Twilight of Democracy’?

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 Art Edwards 0 Comments Anne Applebaum, David Daley, Twilight of Democracy, Unrigged

Or will the center hold? Or neither? Or both?

Sports TELEVISION

‘Last Chance U’ Scores Again

August 18, 2020August 24, 2020 Jon Hart 0 Comments Dakota Allen, Jason Brown, John Beam, Laney College, Last Chance U, Ronald Ollie

A new school, but the same compelling JUCO football drama

NON-FICTION Politics

Presidenting Is Hard

August 18, 2020August 24, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments 60 Minutes, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, John Dickerson, The Hardest Job in the World, The West Wing

‘The Hardest Job In the World: The American Presidency,’ by John Dickerson

Biography COMICS CREATORS NON-FICTION Writers

‘Jack Kirby: the Epic Life of the King of Comics’

August 13, 2020August 17, 2020 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments Captain America, Fantastic Four, Jack Kirby, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel DC, Tom Scioli

Tom Scioli’s graphic novel gives the master his due

Sports TELEVISION

Don’t Call It a Restart

August 13, 2020August 16, 2020 Daniel Cohen 0 Comments Breonna Taylor, Charles Barkley, Damian Lillard, Devin Booker, Ernie Johnson, Gregg Popovich, Inside the NBA, Kenny Smith, LeBron James, NBA, Phoenix Suns, Shaquille O'Neal, TJ Warren

The NBA Bubble has been tremendously compelling television

NON-FICTION

Where Have All The Tomboys Gone?

August 11, 2020August 13, 2020 Mia McCullough 0 Comments Lisa Selin Davis, Tomboy

Journalist Lisa Selin Davis rehabilitates a vanishing term for a certain type of girl

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