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Dec 1, 2024 | 
independent.com | Brian Tanguay
Credit: Courtesy I first read Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 30 years ago, but hadn’t thought about the book again (though in that time I have read most of Rushdie’s glittering oeuvre) until a few months ago, when I heard a “Past Present Future” podcast hosted by the erudite David Runciman, a contributing editor at the London Review of Books, in which he situated Midnight’s Children alongside The Handmaid’s Tale, Atlas Shrugged, and The Time Machine in a fascinating series about great...
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
independent.com | Brian Tanguay
Book Review | ‘Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy’ by Katherine Stewart An Example of How Outstanding Journalism Provides Context and Connection on the Rise of a Political Movement By Brian Tanguay Fri Nov 22, 2024 | 11:20am Add to Favorites No journalist that I’m aware of has chronicled the rise of the Christian Right as assiduously and comprehensively as Katherine Stewart has. From her first book, The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault...
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
independent.com | Brian Tanguay
Credit: Courtesy For a novel of only 89 pages, Awake For Ever in a Sweet Unrest is surprisingly deep, and will appeal to readers familiar with the Romantic movement as well as those who just want to be carried away by a good story. Chuck Rosenthal has produced a large corpus of work, many novels, a memoir, and essays.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
independent.com | George Yatchisin |Brian Tanguay |Nick Welsh |Jackson Friedman
Book Review | ‘No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk’ by Gavin Butt Follow a Select Band of Art School Students Through the 1980s British Punk Rock Movement By George Yatchisin Thu Oct 10, 2024 | 1:37pm Add to Favorites Polymath producer-musician Brian Eno has this great theory about “scenius” as the corrective to “‘genius,’ which exemplifies what I call the ‘Big Man’ theory of history – where events are changed by the occasional brilliant or terrible man, working in...
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
independent.com | George Yatchisin |Brian Tanguay |David Starkey |Leslie Dinaberg
‘Disturbing the Bones’ | Photo: CourtesyAcclaimed director and screenwriter (Holes, The Fugitive, and the Santa Barbara–set Steal Big Steal Little, among others) and Santa Barbara resident Andy Davis has teamed up with American Book Award–winning author Jeff Biggers to write a new novel, Disturbing the Bones, in which they imagine what happens in the final days of a clashing presidential election, when a nuclear weapons incident throws the world into chaos.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
independent.com | Brian Tanguay |David Starkey |Leslie Dinaberg |Ryan Cruz
Book Review | ‘I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are’ by Rachel Bloom The ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Star’s Memoir Is Both LOL Funny and Grimace-Making By George Yatchisin Thu Oct 03, 2024 | 11:24am Add to Favorites Think of Rachel Bloom’s memoir I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are as a bathroom book. It’s written in zippy chapters — some lists, some mini-screenplays, some poems from her childhood (they are often illustrated, as it seems she’s kept all her life’s journals, and yes, she is...
