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Book Review: Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson
Shelf Awareness for Readers is doing a dedicated poetry issue in which another review of mine will be published – a wonderful debut (and prize-winning) collection by Brynn Saito called The Palace of...
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Poetry Review: Palace of Contemplating Departures by Brynn Saito
My review of Brynn Saito’s The Palace of Contemplating Departure (Red Hen Press, 2013) ran in today’s Shelf Awareness for Readers (dedicated poetry issue; it is, after all, Poetry Month). I loved this...
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Review: Gish Jen, Tiger Writing
Here and below is my review of Gish Jen”s Tiger Writing: Art, Culture and the Interdependent Self, published by Harvard University Press in March; it ran in today’s Shelf Awareness for Readers. Gish...
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Shelf Awareness for Readers Review: Love Among the Particles: Stories, by...
My review of Norman Lock‘s story collection Love Among the Particles (Bellevue Literary Press, $14.95, paperback, 9781934137642) was published in the current Shelf Awareness for Readers. I loved this...
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Review: The Human Spark: The Science of Human Development, by Jerome Kagan
Here is my Shelf Awareness review for Jerome Kagan’s The Human Spark: The Science of Human Development. The relationship between nature and nurture has always fascinated me. The idea that nurture...
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Shelf Awareness for Readers Review: Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine by by...
This review* for Shelf Awareness for Readers was challenging to write, both for the need to capture complex ideas in 250 words and for required refresher on the many interpretations of Shakespeare’s...
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Shelf Awareness for Readers Review: The Rest of Us, by Jessica Lott
Here* is my Shelf Awareness for Readers review for Jessica Lott’s debut novel The Rest of Us Simon & Schuster, $24.99, hardcover, 9781451645873. The advance reader’s copy came with blurbs from...
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Shelf Awareness for Readers Review: The Telling Room, by Michael Paterniti
My review for Michael Paterniti’s The Telling Room is posted here. It’s always good to look at other reactions: The New York Times review, while positive, acknowleged its overwrough quality, comparing...
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Poetry: Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting and Jump Soul
This post covers two recent Shelf Awareness poetry reviews (April is poetry month, after all). The first is the debut collection Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Kevin Powers, author of...
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Rest of Us by Jessica Lott
My review in Shelf Awareness is here. The Boston Globe review also praised it, saying that, while the plot line was the stuff of chick lit, Lott has written “a compelling, resonant, richly nuanced,...
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