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Book Review: The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen
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Bananas, it turns out, don't grow on trees, but instead are large herbs and are best classified as berries. The plant, which is actually a tall grass, can grow - from a cutting and not a seed - twenty inches in twenty-four hours. The banana we eat in
Book Review: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway wrote and rewrote A Moveable Feast [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/143918271X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theident-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=143918271X&linkId=078e8ace01d22ee523b7f08d126eae39] , the memoir of his impoverished years as a young writer in
Book Review: Luck Favors the Prepared by Nathaniel Barber
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In the first sentence of what turns into an uncommonly poignant and funny book, Nathaniel Barber dives headlong into a familiar topic: the interview for the job your don't want. We've all been there, sitting across from our future boss, being talked out of a position
Adventures with a Pair of Jon Krakauer Books
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Views for days from the summit of Old Speck in Maine. Summer in New England offers some of the best hiking in North America and, if Mother Nature grants us enough sunny weekends, the opportunity to tackle the 67 tallest peaks in the region. This is my second summer attempting
Book review: Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001 - 2011, by Lizzy Goodman
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My last week was spent partying like a rockstar with my friends in a seaside mansion. Charmed life, right? Technically, we rented it for a work project, but since we spent days and nights blaring music, drinking champagne, and feeling like rockstars, the setting was appropriate for my latest read,
Book Review: Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991, by Michael Azerrad
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In 1991, Nirvana's Nevermind was released to glowing reviews and plenty of mainstream radio play, jumping to the number one spot on Billboard's album list. After a great Pixies show at the House of Blues in Boston a few weeks ago, I got thinking about how
Book Review: Men Without Women, by Haruki Murakami
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Few authors deftly create characters as deeply human and mesmerizingly real as Haruki Murakami. Whether sketching biographies of quake victims in After the Quake, or capturing the derailment of a man's life in Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, he is an undisputed master of his
Book Review: Beren and Lúthien, by J.R.R. Tolkien
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We live in exciting times. Ten years since the last J.R.R. Tolkien book was released (Children of Hurin [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618894640/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theident-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0618894640&linkId=