Tuesday, November 6, 2012

The book we're talking about

  • Emma Donoghue's 'Astray': The Book We're Talking About This Week

    Publisher's Weekly: "The 14 stories are all short (many too short), and by the time they've set up the circumstances and the era, they're almost done, and we're leaving characters we know as creatures of a time and place rather than individuals.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • David Foster Wallace's 'Both Flesh And Not': The Book We're Talking About

    It's a posthumous book of essays that range from the topic of tennis to the film Terminator 2. Though they have all been published in magazines before, they have not been published in a book. The book also contains a list of words that Wallace wanted ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • The Book We're Talking About: 'There Was A Country' By Chinua Achebe

    This book describes the state of the country prior to war, so that readers can understand its potential, and carries on through the monstrous violence that took place.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • 'The Middlesteins' By Jami Attenberg: The Book We're Talking About

    Entertainment Weekly: "Attenberg's slender fourth novel is an intriguing dysfunctional-family story told from multiple, fast-shifting points of view, but it never sits still long enough to truly explore the complicated minds of its characters.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • BOOK PROJECT: We're talking about 'The Warmth of Other Suns'

    The Campus Community Book Project is all about reading and talking - two kinds of talking, actually. There are talks, as in panel discussions and faculty presentations.

    dateline.ucdavis.edu

  • 15 Questions with Ian Frazier

    We're talking about books." They may be on the way out but they're certainly having a spasm at their death. The wonderful writer Anne Fadiman said about books, "A book is public". And I think that is so profound. What you're getting with your little ...

    www.thecrimson.com

  • 'Race-Baiter': Media Feed On Fear And Prejudice

    CONAN: But part of the development of this, you site at the beginning of the book, is a transition from a day when we had three - and we're just talking television here for a moment - three major broadcast networks that tried to appeal to everybody and ...

    www.wwno.org

  • In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel 'Alone Together'

    We're talking about her latest book, which has just been published in paperback. It's called "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other.

    www.kqed.org

  • 'Race-Baiter": Media Feeds On Fear And Prejudice

    CONAN: But part of the development of this, you site at the beginning of the book, is a transition from a day when we had three - and we're just talking television here for a moment - three major broadcast networks that tried to appeal to everybody and ...

    news.wfsu.org

  • Guilty Pleasures: Daylight

    Whether we're talking about movies, music, books or whatever, we all think we have great taste. Because we only see things from our own perspectives, we usually use our personal tastes as a way to judge quality.

    www.boxofficeprophets.com

  • Creations, Myths, and the Untold Story of Marvel Comics

    Characters from the world of Marvel Comics. Good guys, bad guys, and enforcers of the American way. No, we're not talking about politics. We're talking about comic book heroes! And specifically those from the multi-billion dollar powerhouse, Marvel Comics.

    www.thetakeaway.org

  • An 'Oddly Normal' Outcome For A Singular Child

    GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guests are John Schwartz and Jeanne Mixon, and we're talking about their son Joe, who is the subject of the new book "Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality.

    www.wbur.org

  • First read: New books are too sexy for this column

    Even in the world of dusty, moldy-oldy books, sex sells. We're not talking about "50 Shades" … well, maybe we are.

    www.dailyrecord.com

  • Games blast away the competition

    "But the general fact we're still labelling people 'gamers' shows that we're not giving the medium enough respect.

    www.news.com.au

  • "I Thought We'd Already Answered That Question": Will Politicians Keep Talking ...

    With every delay in implementation, the severity of the emissions cuts required would grow exponentially. And to get an idea of how massive an undertaking we're talking about, consider that one such "wedge" was cutting total global automobile usage to ...

    www.tnr.com

  • Podcasts Are Back!

    We discuss why we're still talking about Mary Shelley's novel almost two centuries after it was written, the value of this edition's annotations, and how much film has mattered to the ongoing life of Frankenstein.

    www.nationalreview.com

  • The Good Voter Larry

    This is the game we're talking about: basketball." Larry felt a burning need to ... While waiting for further notice, Larry accidentally read a book that was not written by Jonathan Safran Foer, which he found almost in mint condition in the trash bin ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Author Offers Spooky New Take On Famous Ghosts

    MARTIN: We're talking about the new children's book, "Horrible Hauntings: An Augmented Reality Collection of Ghosts and Ghouls.

    news.wbfo.org

  • AmTrust Financial Services' CEO Discusses Q3 2012 Results Earnings Call ...

    We pushed very strongly to, that our book that we're underwriting should be small workers' comp, should be our top 60 classes which we like and we are having a lot of success there, not only in underwriting the business, but in getting the pricing that ...

    seekingalpha.com

  • Express Scripts Holding Management Discusses Q3 2012 Results - Earnings ...

    And what we're seeing, and you see it everyday, in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, there was a headline article about how employers are looking at the impact of Health Care Reform and what actions they may take.

    seekingalpha.com

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