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Shadow box
by Plimpton, George.
July 3, 2016
Call Number: 796.33 P728
From “A Poem on the Annihilation of Ernie Terrell” by Muhammad Ali and Marianne Moore " . . .He is claiming to be the real heavyweight champBut when the fight starts he will look like a trampHe has been talking too much about me and making me soreAfter I am through with him he will not be able to challenge Mrs. Moore." (Click... Read Full Review
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This old man : all in pieces
by Angell, Roger.
March 21, 2016
Call Number: 818 A583
Roger Angell, America's senior man of letters, returns with a collection of pieces culled from The New Yorker. Angell was a long time fiction editor and baseball columnist for the magazine. He writes gracefully about the ravages of old age, and the pleasant memories of the past which keep him going after losing his wife and daughter. Angell's mother, Katherine White, and stepfather, E.B. White, both wrote for The New Yorker. Katherine White was the magazine's first fiction editor. E.B. White was a mentor for Angell when he was budding young writer... Read Full Review
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Although of course you end up becoming yourself : a road trip with David Foster Wallace
by Lipsky, David, 1965-
August 11, 2015
Call Number: 813 W188Li
In 1996, David Lipsky, a New York-based Rolling Stone writer, traveled to the Midwest--Bloomington, Illinois and Minneapolis/St. Paul Minnesota--to hang out with novelist David Foster Wallace at the tail end of his Infinite Jest book tour. The proposed feature never made it into print that year (it would have been Rolling Stone’s first author profile in ten years), but Lipsky held on to his tapes of their rendezvous. He decided to publish the interviews in book form after Wallace’s tragic suicide in 2008. The book, which came out in 2010, is the basis for the new... Read Full Review
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So that happened : a memoir
by Cryer, Jon, 1965-
May 18, 2015
Call Number: 812.092 C9565
Jon Cryer’s So That Happened: A Memoir is the rare celebrity tell-all that is as insightful as it is entertaining. Cryer, star of Two and a Half Men, comes across as a levelheaded person in a crazy business. The author doesn’t spare us any salacious details, particularly about his time working with Charlie Sheen, but he balances his life story with moments of compassion and empathy. In essence, Cryer manages to merge a literary sensibility with a jocular tone. Cryer grew up in a bohemian apartment house in New York, surrounded by artists of all stripes. He and his... Read Full Review
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All the Truth is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
by Bai, Matt.
February 9, 2015
Call Number: 320.973 B1515
Colorado Senator Gary Hart was considered to be the frontrunner for the 1988 Democratic Presidential nomination in 1987. Bai, the national political columnist for Yahoo News, recounts how an alleged adulterous affair forced the potential Democratic nominee to drop out of the race. Hart, reeling from the intense media circus he and his family were subjected to, withdrew into seclusion. He reemerged in November to run a quixotic, scaled down campaign which failed to generate many votes. Bai places the blame for Gary Hart’s failed campaign squarely on the shoulders of the media.... Read Full Review
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The world of yesterday
by Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942.
August 11, 2014
Call Number: 832 Z79Z 2013
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was the most popular writer in continental Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. A novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright and journalist, Zweig wrote his memoir shortly before he took his own life in Brazil, exiled from his Austrian homeland. In recent years, Zweig's works are back in print in the United States with new translations, and his personality inspired Ralph Fiennes character in... Read Full Review
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On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family, and the Church in the Twenty-First Century
by Francis, Pope, 1936-
May 12, 2014
Call Number: 261 F818
In 2010, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio (now Pope Francis) had a series of religious dialogues with a fellow Argentinian, Abraham Skorka, a Conservative Rabbi and biophysicist. The two religious leaders discussed the principle that the role of faith plays in dealing with contemporary issues such as economic inequality, euthanasia, treatment of the elderly, political corruption, abortion and materialism. More controversially, they shared their opposition to gay marriage, their respect for some communists, their agreement that the Catholic Church had a mixed record during the... Read Full Review
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Year zero : a history of 1945
by Buruma, Ian,
March 11, 2014
Call Number: 909.9 B974
1945 was the year that radically changed the world, according to Dutch historian Ian Buruma. Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, beginning the Atomic Age. General Douglas MacArthur took charge of the Supreme Command of Allied Powers. At the end of the Second World War, Europe was divided up by forces from the United States and the Soviet Union, precipitating the Cold War. The United Nations was formed to prevent another worldwide catastrophe. The Nuremberg Trials were held to bring Nazi mass murderers to justice for genocide--the first time men had been put on trial... Read Full Review
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The mayor of MacDougal Street : a memoir
by Van Ronk, Dave.
December 31, 2013
Call Number: 789.14 V275
The inspiration for the new Coen brothers film, Inside Llewyn Davis, Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002), was the unofficial leader of the Greenwich Village folk music scene in the late fifties and early sixties. Unlike most of the New York-based performers, Van Ronk was a New York native who grew up in Queens and Brooklyn. He developed a love for jazz and blues at a young age, and frequented the Washington Square Park folk singing sessions. Though he had seen very little of the country until he was in his twenties, Van Ronk became deeply enamored of music from the American heartland.Van Ronk... Read Full Review
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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
by Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-
November 4, 2013
Call Number: 174 G543-1
Gladwell, a columnist for The New Yorker, has produced another bestseller about success, focusing on the advantages of the disadvantaged. It is counterintuitive to think that David can triumph over Goliath. The biblical story, in the first book of Samuel, is a classic case of asymmetrical warfare. David would have no chance of defeating a giant in hand-to-hand combat. The slingshot is his only option to vanquish Goliath.Gladwell profiles representative figures who demonstrate how hardships can be turned into strengths. David Boies, one of America's leading... Read Full Review
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Strokes of genius : Federer, Nadal, and the greatest match ever played
by Wertheim, L. Jon.
September 14, 2013
Call Number: 796.1 W499
Tennis players rarely catch the attention of the American public anymore, even as modern racquet technology and training techniques have made the sport more exciting. The sport has been dominated by Europeans for the last decade, and its old country club following has largely gravitated to golf. Despite the Williams sisters' mastery of the women's game, it takes a truly epic match between the top players for tennis to be water cooler fodder. Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim recounts such a match in this excellent book. For the first time since the Borg-... Read Full Review
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Instant : the story of Polaroid
by Bonanos, Christopher, 1969-
August 12, 2013
Call Number: 338.78 P762Bo
Instant photography is so much a part of our lives that it is difficult to imagaine a time when it was a novelty. In the late 1940s the Polaroid Land Camera was commercially available and it printed a photograph in one minute. Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid, was the Steve Jobs of his day, according to author Christopher Bonanos. He dropped out of Harvard and developed polarized filters for automobiles, sunglasses and 3-D spectacles. His Cambridge-based technology firm invented the first instant camera by the end of World War II. Instant color film was invented by... Read Full Review
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