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Julia Child died today in Santa Barbara, California at the age of 91. Serious foodies and those of us old enough to remember her first television appearances know that Julia revolutionized cooking in America. Her television career began in Boston in 1963, and for those of us who grew up …

Chokeberry Days + Murder Most Foul

Moon & Ba's ultra-romantic grapic novel. . .

(In which our intrepid manga explorer is driven into momentarily reminiscing about Julie Newmar.)

Filming is already underway on the fourth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Ralph Fiennes has been cast as the dreaded Lord Voldemort, Potter’s lethal nemesis: In the first three films, only Voldemort’s spirit has been visible, but he returns in the flesh for the …

This little book cleverly satirizes America's obsessions with sex, health and various vices. Filled with bizarro-world table turning, plain absurdity, and acute observations of familiar social phenomena that no one likes to talk about, it would make a great gift for anyone who can take a joke.

JK Galbraith is exceptionally unwise for a brilliant old man, as demonstrated in this excerpt from his latest book, The Economics of Innocent Fraud : Truth For Our Time: We cherish the progress in civilisation since biblical times and long before. But there is a needed and, indeed, accepted qualification. …

Kit Reed's sardonic s-f satire on American diet culture. . .

Former president Bill Clinton (maybe someone was unaware that Clinton is a former president, so I put that in just in case) is live with NPR’s Diane Rehm – she of the spasmodic dysphonia – right now. Clinton is most effective in an intimate setting and Rehm is a very …

Bill Clinton’s My Life is number 1 on Amazon right now and doing just fine. The Wharton School looks at the marketing plan behind it, getting all racy calling Clinton the “Laydown King” in its intro: Laydown denotes nothing salacious. In the world of publishing, the laydown date is a …