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Book Review: “The Ominvore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan
In an emergency... this book can be used in a stew. The True Cost of Eating Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Let’s be frank. “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals” by Journalist Michael...
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Book Review: “Small Crimes” by Dave Zeltserman
Vermont - a cesspool of crime. Many years ago, I interviewed the now late Robert Cormier, the author of young adult classics “The Chocolate War” and “I Am The Cheese.” Cormier started his career...
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Book Review: “American Gods” by Neil Gaiman
A Comic Book Writer Reinvents the Fantasy Novel. Odin's favorite tome. Old, forgotten gods stalk through the pages of Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods.” They also drink, curse, fight, scowl, gamble, and...
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Book Review: “The Incredible Shrinking Man” by Richard Matheson
Sexual Perversion & the Incredible Shrinking Male Id Small guys... big problems. On the surface Richard Matheson’s “The Incredible Shrinking Man” is about an average Joe who shrinks one inch every...
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How about that Zombie Apocalypse?
Book Review: “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War” by Max Brooks pushes the zombie novel out of camp’s camp. The introduction to Max Brook’s marvelous zombie novel “World War Z” starts this...
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Income Inequality & the Pursuit of Poverty
Book Review: “The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger” by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett The headline trumpeting from USA Today this morning is chilling: “Poverty at 15.1%,...
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6 Books I’ve Read 3 Times
I don’t often read books more than once. There is only so much time, after all, and so many damn good books. So why keep going back to the same well? That said I am guilty of reading six books three...
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