Joe Muscolino spends half his time in NYC and the other half buried inside a book. Both afford him the luxury of a new experience, the latter is just a much cheaper route. He consumes fiction and nonfiction in equal measure, and spouts literary and cultural opinions on Facebook and Google+, where you’re encouraged to subscribe.
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Eadweard Muybridge is the keystone to Edward Ball's rapturous retelling of a lawless nineteenth-century America, when a robber baron and an eccentric became the unlikely founders of modern cinema.
To find the beating heart behind Kurt Vonnegut's tongue-in-cheek writing, look no further than his trove of personal letters. The humanism, jokes, and avuncular morality that radiates from his fiction is found tenfold in this collection.
Famed restaurateur Eddie Huang's sharp, funny memoir is a blueprint of American entrepreneurialism and a family narrative drenched in dysfunction. Huang proves that food, instead of being showmanship, is a social expression.
In the introduction to Al Gore’s The Future, Gore credits a mysterious person for the inspiration behind his new book, an unnamed muse who asks the former vice president a standard loaded question: 'What are the drivers of global change?'
In a gross oversimplification of American culture that probably warrants the thwack of a gavel, I’ve often said that most of us “concerned citizens” understand our legal system on three basic level. Now, Toobin's new book can expand our knowledge beyond the basics.
In Carter's latest, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln, the author imagines a turn of events that results in the survival of President Lincoln -- and the ultimate attack on his presidency.
For those of you not yet familiar with Larson's work, be prepared to encounter an historian, a storyteller, unlike any other, in this meticulously researched walk through the Third Reich's Berlin.
For a movement criticized for being unorganized and without a clear message, Reich's Outrage serves to crystalize their concerns with the gravitas of a respected economist and the clarity of a man not stoned and drumming on a bongo in Zuccotti Park.
Politico's Mike Allen and Evan Thomas have teamed up to write four eBooks documenting the GOP race to the White House. The aptly named Inside the Circus marks their second foray in the POLITICO-sponsored series, one that's proving to redefine journalism as we know it in the twenty-first century.
In Jean Edward Smith's exhaustive new biography, Eisenhower in War and Peace, a portrait wrought with academic rigor and charming precision, personal and professional details pour forth.
We may not pay much thought to it, but Eastern Europe is quite the loaded term. The ‘Eastern’ is the kicker. It suggests an ‘us’ vs. ‘them.’ A certain distance between this and that. Such a setting may deter some authors who are searching for a more accessible backdrop, but it is precisely in this landscape that Obreht drops us into her visionary tale.
Let’s face the facts: We, the imaginative species that we are, don’t often like to face the facts. Escapism is an accessory of human existence. So if we’re going to read nonfiction, it has to be pretty darn compelling. Lucky for us, leaving Plato’s cave has become slightly more tolerable with Eli Saslow’s book Ten Letters, a poignant portrait of American society as told through ten missives written to President Obama.
Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings: A New York Epic
A New Tale from Paulo Coelho: Manuscript Found in Accra
A Modern Classic That Endures: Robert Penn Warren's All the King’s Men
Oceans Eleven Comes to the YA Set: Ally Carter's Perfect Scoundrels
Some Heat Before Summer: Long Simmering Spring by Elisabeth Barrett
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