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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Dystopian fiction, dystopian non-fiction

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True confession: I'm mildly horrified by the popularity of bad guys.  The Sopranos, House, True Blood, Breaking Bad- all of these featur...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

An interview with Mara Hvistendahl, author of "Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, And the Consequences of a World Full of Men"

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Sex selection is a big deal. By "big deal", I mean by as much as 163 million missing women in the world . To put that number int...
Thursday, August 4, 2011

Another kind of e-book

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Yesterday, I heard this story about news organizations selling their own e-books on the WBUR program Here and Now . Basically, some news ...
Monday, July 18, 2011

An interview with George O'Connor, author of the "Olympians" graphic novel series

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What happened when George O'Connor , an author who writes graphic novels retelling Greek myths, was kind enough to sit down with a mytho...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

An interview with Joyce Raskin, author of "My Misadventures As A Teenage Rockstar"

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My Misadventures As A Teenage Rockstar sounds like it’s right out of a Disney Channel movie- but it’s not. Yes, the main character Alex doe...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

An interview with Mary Osborne, author of "Nonna's Book of Mysteries"

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Mary Osborne Mary Osborne's Nonna's Book of Mysteries is, like so many other good books, hard to pin into one genre. At it...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Let everyone speak

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When I look for something to read for pleasure, my first requirement is that it be clearly written, whether it's about renewable energy ...