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Biskind, Peter, ed. My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles. Metropolitan: Holt. Jul. 2013. 240p. ISBN 9780805097252. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780805097269. CD: Macmillan Audio. AUTOBIOG/ENTERTAINMENT Back when, the inimitable Orson Welles recorded a series of private conversations while lunching with director Henry Jaglom, a good friend. In the recently rescued tapes, [...]
Chopra, Aneesh. Big Small Smart: How American Government Can Accomplish More with Less Through Open Innovation, Collaboration, and Participation. Atlantic Monthly. Jun. 2013. 288p. ISBN 9780802121332. $25. POLITICAL SCIENCE As the federal government’s first chief technology officer, Chopra worked hard to help Americans through online means, bringing in everything from electronic records for veterans to [...]
Glass, Charles. The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II. Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA). Jun. 2013. 400p. ISBN 9781594204289. $27.95. As author of the much-praised Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation, former ABC News correspondent Glass proved that he could writes rigorous but accessible history. Here he considers deserters during [...]
Angel, Katherine. Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult To Tell. Farrar. Jun. 2103. 304p. ISBN 9780374280406. $26. SOCIAL SCIENCE/WOMEN’S STUDIES In her discussion of female sexual desire, Angel draws on personal experience, but this is hardly memoir. A postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine at Warwick University in England, Angel [...]
Feifer, Gregory. Russians: The People Behind the Power. Twelve: Hachette. May 2013. 352p. ISBN 9781455509645. $27.99. CURRENT EVENTS A native Russian speaker who was National Public Radio’s Moscow correspondent and is now senior correspondent for Radio Free Europe, Feifer has reported from Russia for nearly ten years. Here he aims to explain Russians to the [...]
Armstrong, Jennifer. Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted and All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic. S. & S. May 2013. 320p. ISBN 9781451659207. $26; eISBN 9781451659238. TELEVISION Folks of a certain age and pop culture fanatics everywhere will instantly catch the titular reference to The Mary Tyler [...]
Baltzley, Brandon. Nine Lives: A Chef’s Journey from Chaos to Control. Gotham: Penguin Group (USA). May 2013. 320p. ISBN 9781592407910. $26. MEMOIR Baltzley went from prepping vegetables at a gay bar as an eight-year-old with an addict mother to cooking the best at various Michelin-starred restaurants while touring with the heavy metal band Kylesa. But [...]
Muto, Joe. An Atheist in the FOXhole: A Liberal’s Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right-Wing Media. Dutton. May 2013. 336p. ISBN 9780525953951. $26.95. Downloadable: Penguin Audio. JOURNALISM Muto calls himself a godless, bleeding-heart liberal, but, hey, he needed a job, so he signed on at Fox, the biggest cable news channel in America [...]
Apkon, Steven. The Age of the Image. Farrar. Apr. 2013. 256p. ISBN 9780374102432. $26. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISICPLINES/LITERACY Never mind that we are surrounded by visual storytelling, with the advent of today’s video recording and editing technology paralleling the invention of movable type. According to Apkon, founder and director of the Jacob Burns Film Center, [...]
Blum, Susan with Michele Bender. The Immune System Recovery Plan: A Doctor’s 4-Step Program to Treat Autoimmune Disease. Scribner. Apr. 2013. 416p. ISBN 9781451694970. $27.99; eISBN 9781451695007. HEALTH An assistant clinical professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Blum herself suffered from an autoimmune condition, increasingly common owing [...]
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