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Published Reviews

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
New York Times reviews
"...“I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead,” a no-holds-barred oral history that captures a lovable but wildly aberrant personality, draws upon a fascinatingly diverse...
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
Publishers Weekly reviews
"For those who know them, the brilliant, dark songs of Warren Zevon (1947-2003) inspire nothing short of adoration; for those who don't, this stunning...
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
New York Times reviews
I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD: THE DIRTY LIFE AND TIMES OF WARREN ZEVON by Crystal Zevon. The Los Angeles '70s rock scene, quite literally in a nutshell: an oral...
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Richmond Times-Dispatch reviews
"With urban edginess, realistic characters, a feisty and sympathetic heroine and a big heart, Simon spins a frightening tale that will have you postponing...
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MIDNIGHT AT THE PALACE: My Life as a Fabulous Cockette
Kirkus Reviews reviews
The radical politics, sexual rebellion, and theatrical extravagance of a spontaneously combusting, gender-bending San Francisco troupe, remembered here by one of...
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Leadership Quarterly reviews
What is it about leadership that excites the minds of scholars and practitioners that so many of them, Joe Raelin being the latest, can continue to reformulate...
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Hamilton Spectator reviews
You're at wit's end trying to motivate your employees. You've dangled carrots and threatened to use sticks. You've scheduled formal meetings and had informal water...
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Leadership and Organizational Development Journal reviews
Joseph Raelin believes that leadership is potentially the most desperate problem we face in organisational life today but that, conceived in a different way,...
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Music Through the Floor
New York Times Book Review reviews
How exhilarating to come across a young writer as technically gifted and emotionally insightful as Eric Puchner…The nine stories in his debut collection are…...
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Flash House, 2003
http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/authors/32/725/critical_praise.html reviews
"Set in tumultuous post-WWII Asia, Liu's third novel is an espionage thriller that traces a woman's efforts to find her husband after he disappears into the...
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Mantids, a new novel by Ron Dakron
Midwest Book Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 reviews
Insects were never thought of by anyone as 'sexy'. "Mantids" takes a look into the love life of the mantis, and a certain male of the species who can't seem to get...
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Boston Review reviews
Some years ago, Laura Glen Louis attended a talk by Grace Paley at which a member of the audience eagerly asked, "Ms. Paley, when are you going to write a novel...
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Do They Know I'm Running?
Fresh Fiction reviews
"David Corbett's grainy realities bring these characters to life . . . dragging the reader on a journey he or she won't soon forget."
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YouTube reviews
Dating in Miami can be a bit tough. Miami Beach native and author of How to Get Divorced by 30, Sascha Rothchild, gives us some friendly advice on how to take on...
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Kim Hess Divorce Guru Turning Challenges into Triumphs reviews
Many people have told me I seem really cheery for a divorced person. Why wouldn’t I? Divorce has treated me well. It was being unhappily married that made me...
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EW, PW, The Independent reviews
“Based loosely on D.H. Lawrence's 1924 pilgrimage to Taos, N.M., where he hoped to create an artists' utopia, Amy Boaz's diamond-cut debut, A Richer Dust, follows...
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East Bay Express reviews
"She prefers to write in bed, but the beds in which Laura Glen Louis dreamed up the lines in her haunting debut poetry collection 'Some, like elephants'; her 2001...
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Baltimore City Paper reviews
by former member
Los Angeles crime novelist Mark Haskell Smith has always harbored a comically ludicrous streak. From his 2002 debut Moist (in which a tattoo on a woman’s severed...
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Terrain: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments reviews
Moving through Girl on a Bridge, we experience a general progression through time: the teenager of “Great Lash” becomes an adult becomes a wife becomes the mother...
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Front page of book reviews
"From traumatic injuries to anthrax shots, Michael Anthony has captured in intricate detail life in a combat zone operating room. As someone who's done two tours...
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