Buzzed Books
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Buzzed Books #21: The Call
Buzzed Books #21 by Leslie Salas Pat Rushin’s The Call The Call: A Virtual Parable, is the novella that inspired the screenplay for Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem. Both novella and screenplay, penned by Pat Rushin, explore existentialism and causality through the exploits of a certain entity-cruncher who refers to himself in the first-person-plural perspective.… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #20: The Great Florida Craft Beer Guide
Buzzed Books #20 by Sam Slaughter The Great Florida Craft Beer Guide Writing a craft beer guidebook in a state like Florida—where a new brewery seems to announce plans to open every day—is tricky. Author Mark Denote had to know that the moment this book went to print, The Great Florida Craft Beer Guide would… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #19: The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities
Buzzed Books #19 by Brett Pribble The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities Do you love children? I don’t. To me they are perfect offerings for the dark lord Satan. So when I discovered The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities I was ecstatic. I wondered what different recipes it would provide on baking and… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #18: Betty Page, Queen of Curves
Buzzed Books #18 by Madison Strake Bernath Bettie Page: Queen of Curves Do not mistake Bettie Page: Queen of Curves by Petra Mason as simply a coffee table book of sexy photographs. Not that these aren’t seductive pictures—there’s plenty of gorgeous skin lining the pages. Queen of Curves is about more than just the model,… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #16: Mo’ Meta Blues
Buzzed Books #16 by John King Mo’ Meta Blues by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson Memoir can be straightforward, once memoirists reveal their particular working premises, so as not to be seen as James Freying their mendacious way to the bank. Autobiographies, however, are fraught with more philosophical problems than memoir. When David Sedaris writes a book… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #15: Miami Bookfair International 2014
Buzzed Books #15 by Madison Bernath 2014 Miami Book Fair International Review As I walked into the 2014 Miami Book Fair International, the scent of sweet corn, melted cheese, and grease blew slick in the air. Food trucks and carts littered the landscape. Children rushed about throwing bocce balls with no sense of the game,… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #14: Beyond the Pale Motel
Buzzed Books #14 by John King Beyond the Pale Motel Francesca Lia Block (Episodes 30 and 64) is best known for her work in YA literature, as a revolutionary author whose bohemian gypsy sensibilities meshed with punk rock aesthetics and gave two generations of disenfranchised youth something beautiful and aching and honest to hold onto.… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #13: Amy Zhang’s Falling Into Place
Buzzed Books #13 by Leslie Salas Amy Zhang’s Falling Into Place Falling Into Place centers on the most popular junior at Meridian high school, Liz Emerson, and her choice to practice the laws of physics by driving her Mercedes off an icy road. Liz’s story unfolds in braided non-chronological storytelling, bouncing between an unlikely narrator’s… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #12: Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s Gold Passage
Buzzed Books #12 by Nicole Callihan Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s Gold Passage In the title poem of Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s Gold Passage, she writes, “What illumines our path forward is what once consumed us,” and the book itself seems born from this exchange of consumption and enlightenment. Steeped in music and place, Dunkle’s poems orient me:… Continue reading
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