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Mystery novelist Laura Lippman is hardly a newcomer to the genre. Author of twelve books, she is nevertheless climbing the ranks of great crime writers with her latest novel To the Power of Three. This novel transports the reader inside the investigation of a school shooting. The “three” in the title is a reference to [...]

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Just because it’s summer and I’m wishing that I were strolling amongst the crowds, the bands, and eccentric guests at a fine party… today’s Book of the Day is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Many books affect you on an emotional level. And many other books affect you on an intellectual level. The Great [...]

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There’s a new feature we’re going to run here at Slushpile. We’ll highlight a Book of the Day and try to introduce you to some good books, some overlooked books, and some weird books that catch our attention. For the time being, I’m going to denote these posts with the acronym BoD, which is unfortunate, [...]

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There were a spate of books and stories a short while ago about smart drugs (or other mechanisms) that made people become suddenly super-intelligent, or super-power, or even super-sexy. Even Thom Jones got into the act with a short story about a guy who finds this technique that makes him confident and irresistible. But the [...]

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From the youngest writer ever to receive the prestigious Whiting Award comes a novel of mystery, questioning family, and the search for truth. John McManus’s Bitter Milk tells the story of Loren Garland, a nine-year-old boy in Tennessee. Loren never knew his father and his mother is shunned by family and the community at large [...]

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Normally, I get a little twitchy and my teeth begin to chatter when I stand in line at one of the major chain bookstores and I look around and see what appears to be millions of little five, six, and seven dollar gift books, everywhere, peeking around every corner, stacked on every cash register, and [...]

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The Cliff Walk: A Job Lost and a Life Found is a warm and emotional memoir from 1997 continues to resonate today with professionals in so many industries either out of work or facing career insecurity. Don Snyder taught at Colgate University and was frequently nominated by the Student Honor Society for the “professor of [...]

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John picked this thing up in Audiobook form and he unequivocally states that it’s a fun listen/read. While the author, a revered Princeton moralist and crank Harry G. Frankfurt, is a bit dense, On Bullshit is definitely up there with Swift’s Modest Proposal. At points angry and at all times funny, this is a little [...]

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