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Review by Elisa Ludwig, eMusic
A masterful, meditative novel about beauty, youth and regret.
In this masterful, meditative novel, Alison, a onetime model, ruminates on her faded youth and a lost friendship. Now in her 40s and suffering from a shoulder injury and hepatitis C, Alison is eking out a living as an office cleaner. Yet her memories drift back from the bleak present to her “bright past” as a teenager, eager to escape an unhappy childhood h...
The Hundred Secret Senses
Review by Rachel F. Elson, eMusic
A story of ghosts, both real and imagined.
A Chinese girl who talks with ghosts travels to San Francisco to live with a stepfamily she's never met. A band of missionaries holes up in a Chinese mansion as they wait to be killed by an approaching army. Two UC-Berkeley students find their romance haunted by the spirit of an ex-girlfriend. These lives collide in Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses, which crosses continent...
The Areas of My Expertise
Review by Patrick Rapa, eMusic
The Daily Show correspondent relates his knowledge of the world.
No offense to books, but if you’re just reading The Areas of My Expertise, you’re not getting the full experience. John Hodgman (whom you may recognize from The Daily Show, or the “I’m a PC” commercials) has got this bookish, bald-faced deadpan that simultaneously conveys authority and whimsy. Which is what you need when you’re lying your ass off. ...
Tweak
Review by Elisa Ludwig, eMusic
A son's journey through the harrowing world of meth addiction.
In the opening of his diary-style memoir, Nic Sheff has left a recovery house and stands on a San Francisco street plotting exactly how he will relapse. Since early adolescence, Sheff has traded the privileges of his upper-middle-class, culturally elite world for alcohol, pot, heroin, cocaine, prescription drugs — but most especially crystal meth. In...
In Defense of Food
Review by Elisa Ludwig, eMusic
A sensible argument for sensible eating.
If science journalist Pollan’s bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma detailed the industrialized food systems eroding our environment, this follow-up serves as a companion guide through the morass of the supermarket back to the eating patterns that will truly nourish us. First, though, Pollan takes aim at “nutritionism,” the Western belief system that focuses on the trees of indivi...
L.A. Confidential
Review by Amy Monaghan, eMusic
A modern noir masterpiece.
It all comes back to the Nite Owl coffee shop in this hardboiled Hollywood epic, the third gripping installment in latter-day noir master James Ellroy’s acclaimed L.A. Quartet. That’s where a brutal massacre occurred one fateful night, leaving six innocents dead. Assigned to solve the crime are fame-chasing Sergeant Jack Vincennes, straight-arrow Sergeant Ed Exley, and quick-to-anger Officer...
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Dirty Jokes In Shakespeare
The works of Shakespeare contain more than 700 puns on sex and more than 400 on genitals. But, sadly, most of these have been kept under wraps for centuries, depriving the world of some of the sharpest, most sophisticated and hilarious jokes in the whole of literature. Shakespeare’s sexual wordplay ranges from uproarious innuendoes to profoundly moving expressions of emotional pain. His kings, queens and aristocrats ar...
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eMusic Q&A: Matt Taibbi
You may know Matt Taibbi from his incisive, uproarious Rolling Stone columns, or perhaps from his satirical work for the New York Press (including one column entitled “The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of The Pope”). Or it could be you know Matt Taibbi because he looks a lot like that dude who joined your evangelical church group for a few months, asked a lot of questions and suddenly disappeared. Going u...
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