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...have as large an impact on book sales as the Pulitzer Prize or Oprah's seal of approval, but the honor remains highly sought after nonetheless. This year's finalists include Drew Gilpin Faust's This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, Peter Matthiessen's controversial Shadow Country, which came under fire for being a re-written compilation of three novels that he wrote in the 90s and Patricia Smith's collection of poems Blood Dazzler, which describe New Orleans before, during and after Hurricane Katrina. With 1,258 books submitted from more than 200 publishers (nonfiction...
...Ptolemy Tompkins' recent books include The Beaten Path: Field Notes on Getting Wise in a Wisdom-Crazy World and Paradise Fever: Growing Up in the Shadow...
...Healy sharply attacks the chorus, really laying into lyrics about betrayal: “It’s the knife in your back / It’s the heart attack / It’s the way you look back before you step out / In time to see the shadow of the one that’s cutting you down.” The song concludes with J. Smith’s decision to kill himself: “There was nobody keeping him here.”The songs that follow further explore the protagonist’s psychology...
Margaret Atwood has worn many literary hats - novelist, poet, essayist, critic, historian - but now she has added another one: orator. Her latest book, Payback: Debt as Metaphor and the Shadow Side of Wealth, isn't just her first nonfiction book not about literature; it's also a series of speeches. Atwood has turned Payback into a Canadian Broadcast Corporation Massey Lecture Series, in which she explores debt as a cultural construct, from favor-trading in chimpanzee societies to, well, favor-trading among the Corleone clan in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. This is not a book about...
...used to - and he's voting for Obama in part because the Illinois Senator has promised to revoke the travel rules. "I've been thinking about that a lot since I heard Obama's grandmother died way out in Hawaii yesterday," said Martinez, rubbing the 5 o'clock shadow on his face. "I think enough of us middle-class Cuban-Americans are feeling the same way about things to make a difference today...