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They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: September 11, 2012

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. [galleryview ...

Best Books of 2011: The Buffet

I once heard that there are only two real aphrodisiacs: variety and exercise. Variety to, you know, keep it exciting, ...

Beat the Algorithm, MATTERHORN Edition: And the winner is…

Last week, I took on Amazon’s algorithm to recommend a book for Ken, whose last great read was Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes. ...

Beat the Algorithm: MATTERHORN Edition

Beat the Algorithm….in which we pit bloggers against Amazon’s algorithm for recommendation supremacy… __________________________ Last week, Rachel defeated Amazon in ...

Drop It Like It’s Haute: The Jersey Shore Booktionary, volume 1

Welcome to Drop It Like It’s Haute, a weekly celebration of that unholiest of marriages between pop culture and literature. ...

The Best Novels of 2010…so far

Like a keg at a frat party, it seems like we just tapped 2010, but now it is already half-finished. ...