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American Inventors
From the steam engine to the Barbie doll, Americans have long innovated out of necessity, opportunity, and circumstance. The following books, from...
Bookmarks, 11/01/09 by Jessica Teisch · More from publication -
Margaret Atwood
In Oryx and Crake (2003), Canadian author Margaret Atwood imagined a dystopian future where genetic technology supplanted human civilization. The...
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Lisa See
With her rich cultural heritage and her deep interest in Chinese culture, Lisa See focuses her writing on China, the United States, and their...
Bookmarks, 09/01/09 by Jessica Teisch · More from publication -
Clancy Martin
Clancy Martin, author of the much-hyped debut novel How to Sell--a quasi-fictional account of fraud in the jewelry industry--was so miserable when...
Bookmarks, 09/01/09 by Jessica Teisch · More from publication -
Iain Pears
IN ENGLISH NOVELIST IAIN PEARS'S LATEST NOVEL, Stone's Fall (see our review below), a wealthy financier and arms dealer mysteriously dies in London...
Bookmarks, 07/01/09 by Jessica Teisch · More from publication -
Tom Wolfe: "To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but i still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things i don't know about."
--Tom Wolfe, Guardian, 1/20/08 --Tom Wolfe, Guardian, 1/20/08 FOR MORE THAN FOUR DECADES, Tom Wolfe has challenged the way Americans perceive...
Bookmarks, 01/01/09 by Jessica Teisch · More from publication -
Anita Shreve: thrillers, emotional dramas, ordinary people, extraordinary choices. C'mon, you know you like that stuff
IN BEST-SELLING AUTHOR ANITA SHREVE'S NEWEST NOVEL, Testimony (reviewed below), a small New England community deals with a sex scandal. A thriller...
Bookmarks, 01/01/09 by Jessica Teisch · More from publication -
Salman Rushdie
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Booker Prize in 2008, a "Best of the Booker" award was created to name the best novel of all the previous...
Bookmarks, 09/01/08 by Jessica Teisch · More from publication -
Peter Carey: the two-time Booker Prize-winning author tells the story of a child of 60s radicals who have gone underground
In Peter Carey's latest novel, His Illegal Self, a young boy comes of age during the militant radical underground of the early 1970s. Starting in...
Bookmarks, 05/01/08 by Jessica Teisch · More from publication -
The Amazon Kindle
Yes, I broke down and got one. With all the reading I do for Bookmarks and in my spare time, I decided to take the plunge and get Amazon's Kindle,...
Bookmarks, 03/01/08 by Jessica Teisch · More from publication
