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October 12, 2008

Stories in Narrative nonfiction:

Waterboards and tea cups

Sunday’s NY Times Book Review featured The Dark Side, a new book by Jane Mayer that delves into the Bush Administration’s widespread use of torture as a central tool in the battle against terrorism. Reviewer Adam Brinkley calls The Dark Side “powerful, brilliantly researched and deeply unsettling.”
I lingered over Brinkley’s review this weekend, struck by [...]

Posted by Donna Wares, August 4th, 2008 | Permalink
File under: Narrative nonfiction, One Book, Politics/government, Reading now

Monkey Girl book lotto

Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul by Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Humes is just out in paperback this week. We have TWO autographed copies to share with CaliforniaAuthors.com readers.
Want one?
Just send us an email [to info at californiaauthors.com] with Monkey Girl in the subject line and we’ll enter you in [...]

Posted by Donna Wares, February 18th, 2008 | Permalink
File under: FoCA, Giveaways, Narrative nonfiction, Philosophy/religion, Science, Site stuff

What the hay, WSJ?

It’s not that the Wall Street Journal hired long-time intelligent design proponent Pamela Winnick to review Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion and the Battle for America’s Soul, it’s that they didn’t bother to identify her as a partisan in the culture wars. Winnick, a Discovery Institute lecturer and the author of A Jealous God: Science’s [...]

Posted by Kate Cohen, February 13th, 2007 | Permalink
File under: Narrative nonfiction, Newspapers, Reviews