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(Editor’s note: This review comes from Steven Nester, host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio show heard on the Public Radio Exchange [PRX]. Nester is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Rap Sheet, Mystery…
There have been a lot of vegan and vegan-adjacent cookbooks published over the last decade as many of us move towards a plant-based diet. Obviously some of these books have been better than others. Some are encyclopedic in nature. Others, for better…
This is the year we started paying attention to the shenanigans our tech was getting up to. With dire warnings about the future of AI from the likes of Tesla founder Elon Musk and the late Stephen Hawking, not to mention the…
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay View, In These Times, CounterPunch, and Noir City. Terrall last wrote for January…
(Editor’s note: Perhaps not surprisingly, Southern California novelist and screenwriter Lee Goldberg — who’s concocted scripts for such notable television series as Diagnosis: Murder, Spenser: For Hire and Monk, and penned more than a dozen Monk TV tie-in novels — is a…
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay View, In These Times, CounterPunch, and Noir City. Terrall last wrote for January…
Bestselling author and renowned physicist Stephen Hawking died earlier today at home in Cambridge, England. He was 76. From Deadline Hollywood: Hawking became a celebrity thanks to his A Brief History of Time best-seller and his striking struggle against the ravages of…
Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s memoir will be published in November according to Markus Dohle, CEO of Penguin Random House, the publisher for the Crown imprint and also tweeted by the former first lady. From Deadline Hollywood: “Writing Becoming has been a…
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay View, In These Times, CounterPunch, and Noir City. Terrall last wrote for January…
The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Breast Cancer is intended to empower patients go beyond the one-size-fits-all “standard of care” and make the decisions that are best for themselves and their loved ones. Because she has a research background, Dr. Maker was able…