Patrick Rapa
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Patrick Rapa writes about books for eMusic, comedy for Cowbell Magazine and music for Philadelphia City Paper. He lives in Philly with this like giant bug he trapped under a teacup.
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Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker…
Humor, intrigue and the secret life of mechanical bees Nick Harkaway is a… more »
Lauren Groff, Arcadia
A hippie heaven goes to hell All utopias fail (seen one around recently?)… more »
Rachel Maddow, Drift: The Unmo…
There's a sense of fairness to Drift that has won some unexpected hearts … more »
Baratunde Thurston, How To Be …
An attempt to re-complicate blackness Attention, black people. Lis… more »
Five Great Stephen King Books …
When it comes to turning books into movies, Stephen King is a hall of fam… more »
Tom Mueller, Extra Virginity: …
"A substance of such prestige and volume, the ancient world's answer to s… more »
Mitchell Zuckoff, Welcome to t…
A wild and harrowing adventure/survival story Mitchell Zuckoff's wild and… more »
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fas…
A fascinating (and humiliating) dissection of our species' psychological … more »
Patrick DeWitt, The Sisters Br…
"I do not regret that the man is dead, but I wish I had kept better hold … more »
William L. Simon, Kevin Mitnic…
The world's most infamous hacker and phone phreaker tells all You don't h… more »
Ernest Cline, Ready Player One…
It's hip to be square Not sure what's more impressive about Ernie Cline's… more »
eMusic Q&A: Ernie Cline
Rise up, geeks of the world. Cast aside your wireless controllers and min… more »
Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalyps…
Die, Robot! Nobody's gonna try to sell Robopocalypse as some deeply origi… more »
Albert Brooks, 2030
The comedian and filmmaker goes for broke in his dystopian literary debut… more »
The Writing Dead: Why We Shoul…
We tend to think of suicide as desperate and impulsive, but it's often un… more »
Six Degrees of Joseph Conrad…
No book is a perfectly self-contained artifact. Books are more permeable … more »
David Foster Wallace, The Pale…
The Final Jest "Sometimes what's important is dull. Sometimes it… more »
Karen Russell
Book tours can be kind of a strange trip. Just ask Florida-born New Yorke… more »
Rebecca Hunt, Mr. Chartwell…
I Love It When They Call Me Big Puppy The titular Mr. Chartwell may be th… more »
Karen Russell, Swamplandia!…
A debut novel about coming of age, coming to grips, and wrestling gators … more »
David Foster Wallace, Girl Wit…
Lean, mean chunks of satire by the author of Infinite Jest If all you kno… more »
Bill Cosby, Himself
There's no consensus when it comes to naming The Greatest Comedy Albu… more »
Six Degrees of Beowulf…
No book is a perfectly self-contained artifact. Books are more permeable … more »
John Vaillant, The Tiger…
A spellbinding and unforgettable adventure story It's easy to think of Mo… more »
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International Bookshelf
By Jess Sauer, eMusic Contributor
The idea that diverse languages are a form of divine punishment, serving only to separate us, is a popular one in numerous mythologies and religious traditions. In Genesis, humanity is unified by a common tongue… more »
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