Word: paperbacks
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Love comes at you lean and fast, like a pulp paperback. A woman named L handles the opening exposition in the foreboding tones of Rod Serling introducing a Twilight Zone episode. Picture, if you will, a broken-down beach town on a quietly nonspecific stretch of the East Coast. The town was once dominated by Cosey's Hotel and Resort, a swanky getaway with "more handsome single men per square foot than anyplace outside Atlanta." But Cosey's is now a Gothic ruin, and Bill Cosey, its handsome, charismatic playa-patriarch, is long dead...
Clutching a Judith Butler paperback and extra copies of the fact sheet, “10 Myths About a Living Wage,” this die-hard Folk and Myth concentrator buys her clothes from a website she read about in Mother Jones—a company that produces its clothes out of hemp and splits its profits equally among its workers. She attends innumerable protest rallies armed with a cup of fair trade coffee in hand. Her hair is washed with organic shampoo and her teeth brushed with organic fennel baking soda, both from Tom?...
...traveling, a hard-boiled soft-cover can be just the ticket. If you're not traveling, you'll want novels that can transport you. Here are some recent paperback mysteries from far and near that are worth investigating THE TERRA-COTTA DOG Andrea Camilleri (Penguin) Sicilian inspector Salvo Montalbano follows the trail of a supermarket heist to a cave where two young bodies lay, dead since World...
Shortly after Summers presented the grant to Menino, each Tenacity student received a paperback copy of Louis Sachar’s Newbery Medal-winning Holes as a gift from Harvard. The students broke into three groups and moved from the tennis court to the shade of nearby trees as it began to drizzle...
Each of the nine stories in Joe Ollmann's new black and white paperback, "Chewing on Tinfoil," (Insomniac Press; 155 pp.; $15.95) feature some sort of (un)lovable loser. The alienated high-school kid, office milquetoast, pretentious layabout, lapsed art student, and bowl-hair-cut kid: all these and more appear in its pages. Ollmann's work is new to me, and it has the leaps and falls of a new artist extending himself. Some of the tales are artless swipes at the usual archetypes, but enough of the stories surprise you with odd details or an unexpected twist...