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Released: Aug. 14, 2012
"Raw material on the life of a dissident thinker that does little to enhance or further damage his reputation."
The last volume of the letters and journals of the prototypical mad scientist, Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957).
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Released: Aug. 14, 2012
"Not for all readers, but prime in its class--literate, learned and wise criticism, with scarcely a breath of cynicism or disdain."
A winner of just about every major literary award exercises his considerable critical chops, ruminating on the works
of poets, photographers, writers and other artists.
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Released: Aug. 14, 2012
"An accessible, indispensable nonfiction guidebook from an authority who knows his subject from cover to cover."
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Released: Aug. 14, 2012
"Saucy, sexy stories of a young writer's life."
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Released: Aug. 7, 2012
"Analyzing his craft, a careful craftsman urges with Thoreauvian conviction that writers should simplify, simplify, simplify."
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New York Times columnist and editorial board member delivers a slim book for aspiring writers, offering saws and sense, wisdom and waggery, biases and biting sarcasm.
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Released: Aug. 7, 2012
"Not a major work, but a thoughtful collection from a writer who, to quote his own description of Daniel Defoe, has "an enormous appetite for truth and life and bloody specificity.""
The erudite novelist and essayist ponders obsessions both old (newspapers and rare books) and new (Kindle 2, Wikipedia, video games).
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Released: Aug. 7, 2012
"A occasionally uneven but mostly engaging assortment from a talented literary mind."
The author of The Baroque Cycle series and works of speculative fiction offers a miscellany of stories and essays, some of classic Stephensonian length.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 7, 2012
"A solid combination of a street-tough attitude and a keen grasp of social and political hot-button issues."
Comedian and TV veteran Hughley drops an in-your-face mega-rant on the downward spiral of American culture.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 3, 2012
"The work as a whole, despite its occasional similarities to essays by Thoreau, likely won't appeal to many general readers, but for those interested in looking at the natural world through the lens of a fairy tale, this is a bonbon of a book."
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Released: July 1, 2012
"A useful introduction to one of America's great scholar-activists."
A collection of essays by American Left icon Zinn (
The Bomb, 2010, etc.) originally published in the political journal
The Progressive.
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Released: June 12, 2012
"Earnest, well-turned personal essays about screw-ups without an ounce of sanctimony--a tough trick. "
Seriocomic tales of the author's recovery from a host of bad habits, including drinking, false friends, bad relationships and politics.
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Released: June 1, 2012
"The same goes for this intellectually generous and rewarding book. Like its many subjects, it repays the close attention it commands."
A vigorous, revealing collection about the pleasures and revelations of close reading, whether it involves words, books, biographies or ideas.
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