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Fast Times in Navel, Utah: Yikes! Another Quirky Audio Book by Adele Park

By On December 18, 2012 · 2 Comments

For Yikes! Another Quirky Audio Book, a send-up of reality shows, bestselling authors, sex addict editors, and potheads (among other things), longtime radio personality and writer Adele Park, writer and producer of

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Image and Identity: Look at Me by Jennifer Egan (Audio)

By On November 15, 2012 · 6 Comments

Everyone who liked Jennifer Egan‘s A Visit from the Goon Squad will probably like Look at Me, a novel published in 2001. Even if you weren’t crazy about A Visit from the Goon Squad because of all the ’70s [...]

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This One’s a Winner!: Beauty Queens by Libba Bray (AUDIO)

By On September 14, 2012 · 6 Comments

I take back everything I’ve ever said about authors narrating their own audiobooks (don’t, please, don’t!) after listening to Libba Bray‘s incredible performance on Beauty Queens. She brings to life her own satirical look at advertising and news [...]

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More Than Satire: The New Republic by Lionel Shriver

By On April 12, 2012 · 3 Comments

Edgar Kellogg, the main character of The New Republic, a novel by Lionel Shriver, is a striver and a fan –the salutatorian instead of the valedictorian, the vice president, the second-place finisher. He’s tired of doing the admiring; he wants to be admired. His place near [...]

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