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Late Bloomer collects Tyler's published and unpublished works from the last 20 years, all of which share a theme uncommon to comix: domesticity. Thankfully these non-fiction vignettes do not constitute moments of adorable "wisdom" from the mouths of babes, or triumphs of motherly multitasking. Rather, the focus stays on the darker side of child rearing and family difficulties, told in the blunt and funny style of the family big mouth. One page, titled "Anatomy of a New Mom" sums up the book's appeal: A mock medical diagram of a baggy-eyed woman nursing a "totally oblivious...
Harvard Square Bestsellers Hardcover Fiction 1. The Lighthouse P.D. James 2. On Beauty Zadie Smith 3. The Rabbi’s Cat Joann Sfar 4. Memories of My Melancholy Whores Gabriel Garcia Marquez 5. The Sea John Banville 6. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits Laila Lalami 7. Monologue of a Dog Wislawa Szymborska 8. Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 9. Slow Man J.M. Coetzee 10. Trouble with Poetry Billy Collins Hardcover Nonfiction 1. Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2. Team of Rivals Doris Kearns-Goodwin 3. Education of a Coach David Halberstam 4. The Lost Painting Jonathan Harr...
...Neil Young; in Copenhagen. In an era of clean-cut performers, Wray shook up the music world with his distorted guitar and menacing persona, laying the foundation for punk, metal and beyond. In the 1990s, he enjoyed a resurgence when his music was featured in several films, including Pulp Fiction and Independence...
...want to understand what makes China tick, ask the businessmen who spend their days immersed in its primordial soup of capitalism and corruption. Their war stories have spawned a booming genre of non-fiction, in which the latest entrant is James McGregor's One Billion Customers. McGregor, who went to the mainland as a journalist but changed tracks in 1994 to become the China head of Dow Jones, dispenses his wisdom through case studies?mostly of how things can go wrong. The story of an investment bank created by Morgan Stanley and the China Construction Bank, for example, shows...
...Neil Young; in Copenhagen. Standing out in an age of clean-cut performers, Wray shook up the music world with his guitar distortions and menacing persona, laying the foundation for punk, metal and beyond. In the 1990s he resurfaced when his music was featured in several films including Pulp Fiction and Independence...