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Sunday, November 20, 2011

The Great Fat Fraud by Mike Schatzki

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The Great Fat Fraud by Mike Schatzki helps untangle the issues around fitness, weight, diet, surgery and the weight loss industry.  By the...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

What I've written lately

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I thought I was promoting myself to the point of embarassment, but when my own mother was surprised when I casually mentioned something I...
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...