NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2011
"Amusing and serious in equal measures, Epstein grants readers the pleasurable company of a master observer of humanity's foibles."
The celebrated essayist anatomizes our sociocultural obsession with gossip, delineating the ways that it can bring people together as well as tear them apart.
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NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2011
"A great incentive to fire up Spotify, or even the old stereo."
New Yorker music editor Ross (
Listen to This, 2010, etc.) curates the year's finest scribbling about sound.
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NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 5, 2011
"Engaging stories from a storyteller who doesn't just know his subject--he loves it."
The sports journalist and author of sports-related mysteries chats candidly about his first 10 nonfiction books, beginning with
A Season on the Brink (1986), and chases down some of their principal characters for a reunion.
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NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 5, 2011
"Engrossing history, vivid contemporary reporting and a cogent call to action, expertly blended in an illuminating text."
Expanding on his
New Yorker article exposing fraud in the olive oil industry, Mueller considers the trade's past, present, and future.
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NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 6, 2011
"A satisfying stream of travel, training, horseplay and nuts-and-bolts military minutiae along with the usual fireworks."
Another macho memoir of a special-forces badass but with a charming, mildly exotic British overlay.
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NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 6, 2011
"From serious to sublime, there's a bounty of periodical perfection here."
More reliably solid, educational reading material awarded by the American Society of Magazine Editors.
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