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Dan Wiencek
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What can you learn from a 944-page book on the Beatles? Let’s start with these seven things.
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Ted Asregadoo
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Kevin J. Anderson expands on Neil Peart’s lyrics to create a fuller story of Clockwork Angels.
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Jeff Giles
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John Carroll – The Existential Jesus (2009, Counterpoint) purchase this book (Amazon) You can’t claim to offer an interpretation of the Gospel of Mark that claims to offer up hitherto…
Jeff Giles
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Bob Schildgen – Hey Mr. Green: Sierra Magazine’s Answer Guy Tackles Your Toughest Green Living Questions (2008, Sierra Club/Counterpoint) purchase this book (Amazon) Which is worse — paper or plastic?…
Jeff Giles
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Jeff Martin (Editor) – The Customer Is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles (2008, Soft Skull) purchase this book (Amazon) I’ve been lucky enough not to have had to wear any…
Jon Cummings
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My World History teacher in high school, Mrs. Rivers, was less than efficient in her use of verbiage. While lecturing about the Peloponnesian Wars or the Roman aqueducts, she would…
Jeff Giles
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Danny Goldberg – Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business (2008) purchase this book (Amazon) Most rock & roll memoirs are penned either by rock stars…
Michael Fortes
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Juliana Hatfield – When I Grow Up: A Memoir purchase this book (Amazon) Á¢€Å“Á¢€¦ if you’re timid and looking for mercy, stay on the road that leads to a more…
Jeff Giles
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Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine – Ask a Ninja Presents: The Ninja Handbook (This Book Looks Forward to Killing You Soon) purchase this book (Amazon) I suppose I should begin…
Robert Cass
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The comedy duo of Richard “Cheech” Marin and Tommy Chong redefined American comedy in the 1970s and ’80s with seven albums and six feature films, including their debut, Up in…
Jeff Giles
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Tim Etchells – The Broken World (2008) purchase this book (Amazon) The Internet has been, as Chico Escuela would say, very very good to me — but still, as a…
Jason Hare
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Over the years, my best friend and I have come up with a lot of random, idiotic games — games that we use to pass the time while waiting for…
Scott Malchus
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Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder titled his memoir Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001) in an attempt to sell more copies of the book. Co-written with journalist…
Jeff Giles
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Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time (2007)purchase this book (Amazon) As my Dad and I sat around the house one Saturday afternoon, playing…
Jeff Giles
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Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (2004) purchase this book IÁ¢€â„¢d never have believed IÁ¢€â„¢d see a wife of mine doting on a child of mine. It still amazes me every time I…
Jeff Giles
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Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (2004)purchase this book I’d never have believed I’d see a wife of mine doting on a child of mine. It still amazes me every time I think…
Jeff Giles
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Shawn McBride, Green Grass Grace (2003)purchase this book Hellfire hallelujah and halitosis. Mike Schmidt sits to pee. How you doing, fuckface? My name’s Henry Tobias Toohey. I love Jesus, rock…
Jeff Giles
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Jim Kokoris – The Rich Part of Life (2001)purchase this book A few hours later at the press conference where we received the oversized check for a hundred-and-ninety-million dollars, a…
Jeff Giles
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Jim Kokoris – The Rich Part of Life (2001)purchase this book A few hours later at the press conference where we received the oversized check for a hundred-and-ninety-million dollars, a…
Jeff Giles
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love (2005)purchase this book The grass was slippery with mud. In the distance I could see a rowboat tied to the dock. I looked out…
Jeff Giles
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Dan Chaon – You Remind Me Of Me (2005)purchase this book The baby’s large eyes settled on him, and though this had been one of his happiest nights in his…
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