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Thursday, May 28, 2020

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What Would You Pay?

March 3, 2020March 8, 2020 Art Edwards 0 Comments Nelson Schwartz, Velvet Rope Economy

‘The Velvet Rope Economy’

Business NON-FICTION Politics

Paul Krugman and the Prophets of Doom

March 2, 2020March 11, 2020 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Arguing With Zombies, Daniel Susskind, Nicholas Kristoff, Paul Krugman, Sheryl WuDunn, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

Three new books wrestle with our most vexing economic questions

Biography NON-FICTION

‘You Never Forget Your First’: Rescuing George Washington From the “Thigh Men”

February 17, 2020February 21, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Alexis Coe, Dan Carlin, George Washington, Karen Abbott, Sarah Vowell, You Never Forget Your First

Alexis Coe and the rise of Hipster History

Sports TELEVISION

The 49ers Are the Best Show on TV

January 22, 2020February 3, 2020 Kevin L. Jones 0 Comments 49ers, Baker Mayfield, Cleveland Browns, Daenerys Targaryen, Jimmy Garoppalo, Richard Sherman, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, Sunday Night Football, Super Bowl

According to a 49ers Fan

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‘Why We Can’t Sleep’ Can’t Convince

January 15, 2020January 17, 2020 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Ada Calhoun, Enjoli, Enjoli commercial, Gen-X, Generation X, Meg Ryan, perimenopause, Sesame Street, Space Shuttle Challenger, Why We Can't Sleep

Ada Calhoun’s Mostly Disappointing Treatise About the Problems Of Gen-X Women

Memoir Remembrance Writers

Writers React to the Death of Memoirist Elizabeth Wurtzel from Cancer at Age 52

January 7, 2020January 7, 2020 Ken Kurson 0 Comments BRCA gene, breast cancer, depression, double mastectomy, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Fight House: Rivalries in the White House, Jim Freed, Joe Biden, John Podhoretz, Julian Castro, Lisa DePaulo, Los Angeles Magazine, Maer Roshan, mikal gilmore, Now Again, Prozac Nation, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Susan Shapiro, Tevi Troy, The Byline Bible

‘Prozac Nation’ helped birth a wave of self-examination

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The Sandworm Strikes

January 6, 2020January 5, 2020 Art Edwards 0 Comments Andy Greenberg, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Mimikatz, Sandworm, Stuxnet

How a Secret U.S. Government Plan to Disable Iran’s Nuclear Capability Created the World’s Deadliest Cyberweapon

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Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon

December 17, 2019December 17, 2019 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Kristen Richardson, Pride And Prejudice, The Season

‘The Season: A Social History of The Debutante’

Biography NON-FICTION

The People’s Princess

December 5, 2019December 17, 2019 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments A Life On The Edge, Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher, Harrison Ford, mental health issues, Sarah Crichton Books, Sheila Weller

‘Carrie Fisher: A Life On The Edge’

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Gimme That Old-Time Religion

December 2, 2019December 1, 2019 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Buddhism, Christianity, Jack Miles, Karen Armstrong, Religion As We Know It, The Lost Art Of Scripture

Two Renowned Religious Scholars Sound the Warning About Fundamentalism

Actors Biography CREATORS Netflix NON-FICTION TELEVISION Writers

The Jenny Slate

November 26, 2019November 27, 2019 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments

A Standup Special, a Memoir, and a Career Spiraling Upwards

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Are You Ready For a Football Book?

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019 Gillian G. Gaar 2 Comments Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Jerry Rice, NFL, Randy O. Williams, Thanksgiving

‘America’s Game: The NFL at 100’

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We Can All Be Mr. Rogers

November 20, 2019 Zack Teibloom 0 Comments Gavin Edwards, Kindness and Wonder, Mr. Rogers, Tom Hanks

Spend More Time in the Neighborhood

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The Root of All Evil

November 13, 2019November 13, 2019 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Nick Shaxon, The Finance Curse

‘The Finance Curse: How Global Finance is Making Us All Poorer’

MUSIC NON-FICTION

‘God Save the Queens’

November 7, 2019November 7, 2019 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Cardi B, God Save The Queens, Ice Cube, Kathy Iandoli, Lauryn Hill, Lil' Kim, Lisa Lopes, Nicki Minaj, TLC

An Essential History of the Women of Hip-Hop