The best magazines launched in 2012 include one sport magazine, a travel magazine, two in the lifestyle genre, an art journal, and five literary magazines. None this year are strictly online; all are available in print.
Scott Thorson on Behind the Candelabra | Tantorious
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Tantorious is a semi-monthly podcast series featuring interviews with well-known authors, hosted by Allan Hoving and presented by Tantor Audio. Scott Thorson was the longtime companion of celebrity entertainer Liberace, who had plastic surgeons change the young man’s appearance to match his own. After their breakup, Thorson filed a palimony suit, then settled, and the two [...]
Beta Testers Weigh In On Hoopla
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Hoopla, Midwest Tape’s pay-per-circulation media streaming service for public libraries, has been in beta-testing mode for close to two months, and early reports of both the service overall and its mobile applications have been positive.
Audio Reviews | April 15, 2013
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Cussler, Clive & Thomas Perry. The Tombs. 9 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 11 hrs. Penguin Audio. 2012. ISBN 9781611761375. $39.95; digital download. F Cussler’s globe-trotting archaeologists, husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo, are off on another fantastic adventure, one that will both educate and entertain Cussler’s legion of readers. While working on their latest dig, the Fargos become [...]
Xpress Reviews: Audiobooks | First Look at New Books, April 26, 2013
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Erdrich is highly recommended, Jennings’s volume is hilarious, entertaining, and surprisingly informative, Maron’s Deborah Knott series continues, Errol Morris on Jeffrey MacDonald, James Patterson—what more is there to say, and the always entertaining Wodehouse
DVD Top Circulators | Las Vegas–Clark County Library District, NV
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Trailers: What’s Coming on DVD/Blu-ray | May 1, 2013
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What’s Coming on DVD/Blu-ray
Criterion’s “Eclipse” Series Approaching 40
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A unique series of hard-to-find works from particular filmmakers celebrates a milestone
Economics on Disc | DVDs for Libraries
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Tax season is over for most of us, but with extensions and delays and those few stragglers, we thought catching up on some economics-themed documentaries would be just the thing for the spring. Our chief economics reviewer, Lawrence R. Maxted, from Gannon University in Erie, PA, has his eye on the pulse of what’s been taxing all of us lately—plus with a lost interview with Steve Jobs.
Xpress Reviews: Audiobooks | First Look at New Books, April 19, 2013
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More from Cole’s “Realm of Blood & Mist,” Oliver Twist, Muller’s Looking for Yesterday, Soli’s magical realism, Giunta’s multiple tours of duty, Jasanoff’s historical analysis and eyewitness testimonies, Manchester’s conclusion to The Last Lion, African Americans in Mississippi, and Wisel’s stirring memoir
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