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        Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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        Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

        By Patrick Rapa, eMusic Contributor

        [In which a late-blooming bookworm finally gets to the stuff he really should have read already.] The Plot, Basically: A bunch of erudite drunks drink in Paris, then meet up in Spain to get drunk and watch bullfights and get drunk some more.   The Plot — All of It: It's not long after World War I, and Paris is full of American expatriates with a lot of time on their hands. Some are rich gadabouts or mooching artists, but… more »

        Continuing Education
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        Continuing Education

        By Elizabeth Isadora Gold, eMusic Contributor

        For many of us, autumn brings back vivid sense memories: the smell of freshly sharpened pencils, the feel of a new backpack's sticky zipper, the sound of an alarm clock ringing in the dark for the first time in months. But the best thing about back-to-school? New books. That stack of unbroken spines, pages clean of overenthusiastic underlining and highlights…Of course, now that we're all fully educated (yeah, right), we're free to audit those interesting-sounding… more »

        Discover: Scandinavian Murder Mysteries
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        Discover: Scandinavian Murder Mysteries

        By Elizabeth Isadora Gold, eMusic Contributor

        What is it about Scandinavia that inspires so many tales of murder? Actual crime rates in Sweden, Denmark and Norway are historically low (not counting the Vikings, of course), but ever since Stieg Larsson's blockbuster The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo captivated U.S. readers, mysteries set in far northern Europe have become as ubiquitous as Harlequin romances back when Fabio was still in business. There is and forever will be only one Lizbeth Salander, but… more »

        Interview: Adam Mansbach
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        Interview: Adam Mansbach

        By Elizabeth Isadora Gold, eMusic Contributor

        I first met Adam Mansbach in college. We were DJs together, sharing a love for classic soul records which, in those pre-iPod days, were only available in dusty thrift store crates or the trash-picked piles of homeless guys who sold them on the street. Adam, like me, considered himself a writer, even starting his own magazine, Elementary, dedicated to covering what we then loftily called "Hip-Hop Culture." Did I want to write for it? Hell… more »

        Scientology Showdown
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        Scientology Showdown

        By Scott Esposito, eMusic Contributor

        South Park dissed them big time in a memorable episode. You've probably had them offer you a free e-meter audit at the mall. And maybe you were even one of those unlucky few who got snookered into watching Battlefield Earth. Yes, Scientology is nutty as hell — but it's also undeniably fascinating, in the best tradition of American nuttery. This winter, curious readers were blessed with the publication of two books on the infamously secretive (and litigious)… more »

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        Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

        Therese Anne Fowler
        2013 | Unabridged

        Therese Anne Fowler, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

        2013 | Publisher: Macmillan Audio
        Mark Peikert By Mark Peikert eMusic Contributor

        Anyone familiar with Zelda Fitzgerald — and particularly anyone who has sided with her in the unending war of public opinion over her marriage (a demanding, needy wife married to a tortured genius vs. a fragile talent with an abusive, narcissist husband) — will be captured almost immediately by Z, Therese Anne Fowler’s empathetic must-read. Taking the well-worn facts about Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald — flapper, muse, mother, possible schizophrenic — Fowler has created not only a well-rounded, flesh-and-blood evocation of a woman alternately cast in the annals of literary… more »

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        The Madman's Daughter

        Megan Shepherd
        2013 | Unabridged

        Megan Shepherd, The Madman’s Daughter

        2013 | Publisher: HarperAudio
        Kate Silver By Kate Silver eMusic Contributor

        Megan Shepherd’s YA update of The Island of Dr. Moreau, the first in a trilogy of books that will take on the horror classics Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Frankenstein, focuses on Juliet Moreau, the teenage daughter of H.G. Wells’s titular doctor. Orphaned in London — her mother has died and her father has vanished, tainted by scandal — Juliet, once at the foothold of society, gets by cleaning the university building where her father once taught. A tip to his whereabouts leads to a chance… more »

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        Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles

        Ron Currie, Jr.
        2013 | Unabridged

        Ron Currie Jr., Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles

        2013 | Publisher: Penguin Audio
        Scott Esposito By Scott Esposito eMusic Contributor

        Ron Currie Jr. begins his second novel with a clear invitation to call him a liar: “Everything I’m about to tell you is capital-T true,” he claims, and then proceeds to relentlessly throw that statement in our faces. Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles is presented as the memoir of one Ron Currie Jr., but very quickly we doubt that it is — while the book’s Currie, taken for dead, recuperates in Sinai after a failed suicide attempt, his manuscript sells millions of copies based on the erroneous public belief that he… more »

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        Whitey

        Gerard O'Neill
        2013 | Unabridged

        Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill, Whitey: The Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss

        2013 | Publisher: Random House Audio
        Patrick Rapa By Patrick Rapa eMusic Contributor

        Some Bostonians used to like to paint James Joseph “Whitey” Bulger, Jr. as a wicked-awesome folk hero. “He robbed and murdered drug dealuhs and mobstuhs!” they said. “Whitey kept Southie safe!” They seemed to forget Bulger was a mobster himself, a man who robbed and killed lots of regular people, burying them all over Beantown since the ’60s.

        The authors of this masterful new biography, Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill, dispel the modern-day-Robin Hood storyline early, kicking things off with the sickening strangulation of the young and happy… more »

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        Interview: George Saunders
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        Interview: George Saunders

        By Amanda Davidson, eMusic Contributor

        George Saunders's newest story, published only as an audiobook and Kindle Single, is told from the point of view of Fox 8, the title character who pens his tale of friendship and loss by way… more »

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