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So I accidentally destroyed my hat the other day. Remember when I lost the hat? Well this time I flat-out annihilated it. I felt bad, so after my plucky farm friends tried to cheer me up, I wrote a roman à clef about the whole affair using the pseudonym David Melling (how I’ve always loved [...]
Short stories are a pure form of the writer’s craft. Denied the expansive space of 300-plus pages, writers have to get right to it and pare away all but the most essential text. Recently, several highly acclaimed collections have been published. Make space on your shelves for these gems (two are forthcoming): Stay Awake by [...]
Complex relationships and steamy sex make this week’s titles sizzle
Clairvoyants, androids, and a bit of the Irish in three new titles
Organic farming, the life of Lanzmann, and dogging-down relativity
Chowdhury, G.G. & Sudatta Chowdhury. Information Users and Usability in the Digital Age. Neal-Schuman. 2011. c.304p. ISBN 9781555708078. pap. $95. PRO MEDIA Aiming to fill a need for books on usability written for professionals who design and provide online information services, this is a clear and accessible guide to examining information needs and developing effective [...]
Street lit often deals with crime in the streets. Those streets can be in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Harlem, D.C., Baltimore, or almost any urban setting. Where there is crime, there’s also jail, aka the big house, the slammer, or the joint. Treasure Blue has written some of the most powerful jail scenes in recent street [...]
ART INSTRUCTION HEATHER HALLIDAY, American Jewish Historical Soc., New York Sherin, Aaris. Design Elements, Color Fundamentals: A Graphic Style Manual for Understanding How Color Impacts Design. Rockport: Quayside. 2012. 160p. illus. ISBN 9781592537198. pap. $24.99. ART INSTRUCTION In this dynamic reference manual, Sherin ( SustainAble: A Handbook of Materials and Applications for Graphic Designers and [...]
Copeland, Lori. Love Blooms in Winter. Harvest House. (Dakota Diaries, Bk. 1). 2012. c.240p. ISBN 9780736930192. pap. $13.99. CF Postmistress Mae Wilkey’s neighbor Pauline is suffering from dementia and needs help. Pauline doesn’t think she has any relatives who can help her, but Mae searches Pauline’s desk until she finds a name-Tom Curtis. After receiving [...]
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