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Dan’s 2024 Year in Books
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| Painstakingly researched exoneration of the great Chaplin, whose fuzzy politics and sexual tribulations made him a prime target for the keepers of the foofy, frightened Fifties. It's also the most accurate peeling yet, thanks to Eyman's fine-tooth ta ...more | |
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| A book to relish and revile - you'll lose yourself in the anecdotal portraitures of each player while you second-guess their subjective rankings (Joe DiMaggio at 56? Really?) Posnanski, as palpably passionate about the pastime as the personalities pr ...more | |
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| A book to relish and revile - you'll lose yourself in the anecdotal portraitures of each player while you second-guess their subjective rankings (Joe DiMaggio at 56? Really?) Posnanski, as palpably passionate about the pastime as the personalities pr ...more | |
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| Painstakingly researched exoneration of the great Chaplin, whose fuzzy politics and sexual tribulations made him a prime target for the keepers of the foofy, frightened Fifties. It's also the most accurate peeling yet, thanks to Eyman's fine-tooth ta ...more | |
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| Impressive debut by Teebi, a robust collection of short stories capturing the Palestinian-Canadian experience. Teebi's contention is that it is not a uniform identity, rather, a state in which resignation or reconciliation is a dangerous prospect. It ...more | |
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| Wolfe's last consideration, a bifurcated look at the much-debated origins of language: Darwin, who lumped it in with natural selection, vs. his detractors, then Chomsky, with his "language organ" defense and his particular dissidents. It's a deeply i ...more | |
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| Wolfe, crown capturer of the electric tenor of his times, at work in the money-mad 80s. It was the revolutionary journalist's first foray into fiction, though an excuse, naturally, to play contemporary sociologist. Given that, the book is a literary ...more | |
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| "The history of the Pony Express is filled with gaps in the record, contradictory reports, and missing information, but the biggest unknown for me has always been the reality of it." Horseman-journalist Grant uncovers that mystery on a five-month, 2, ...more | |
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| Wolfe, crown capturer of the electric tenor of his times, at work in the money-mad 80s. It was the revolutionary journalist's first foray into fiction, though an excuse, naturally, to play contemporary sociologist. Given that, the book is a literary ...more | |
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| Mikanowski's Eastern Europe is a pluralistic polyglot, a kind of ad hoc peasants' paradise, till it becomes subject to every ism in world history: nationalism, Nazism, communism, socialism, capitalism. Each new landlord brings imprisonment, expulsion ...more | |
