Book Reviews & The Written Word
Without the Written Word, books wouldn't even exist.
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In honor of Banned Books Week, Sept. 30-Oct. 6, 2012, we’re letting the artists do the talking about censorship. Here’s what they have to say: George R.R. Martin “When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” Mark [...]
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When the Dummies books first hit the market in the early 1990s, many were concerned their titles insulted prospective readers. After all, anyone seriously seeking education can hardly be called a dummy. Fun, instructive and easy to read, the series kicked off with DOS for Dummies and has grown into a series that, according to [...]
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Payback is the name of the game in Gillian Flynn’s latest novel Gone Girl. Flynn, the author of two previous books – the stellar Sharp Objects and the slightly less stellar Dark Places – crafts a compelling portrait of a marriage told from the perspective of each party. Using a sinister split narrative, Gone Girl [...]
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Journalists tend to be represented in popular media as cynical, nosy, self-righteous, and insensitive. But, while this may be true for a very small percentage of them, most journalists are just on a quest for the truth. And on that quest toward the truth, a journalist must be ethical, inquisitive, and unrelenting. I mean, how [...]
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We’ve all been there. Meekly wandering the aisles of the airport bookstore, wondering which paperback will take our mind off the impending doom of a water landing. And yet, despite hundreds of options, nothing seems to be remotely interesting. What’s a tremulous traveler to do? Below are 7 tips for finding a future favorite. Bestsellers [...]
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