Nov 20, 2009 -
Forget the Literary Review's Bad Sex Scene award — we want the good ones, but not the smut . . .
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Nov 06, 2009 -
When I first saw this headline on Newsweek, "Why Teenagers Are Growing Up So Slowly Today," I thought, whaaa? With all the sexting and drugs, aren't teens growing up too fast?
Just because teens are doing adult things doesn't mean they are acting like adults, argue Joseph Allen and Claudia Worrell Allen, authors of Escaping the Endless Adolescence.
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Nov 02, 2009 -
Hundreds of new books clamor for attention on the already-packed shelves at bookstores each month, so we've slushed through all the new titles to bring you the most promising pages of November. Once you've checked out the latest must reads, explore some of the most influential books of all time in our Battle of the Books faceoff.
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Oct 31, 2009 -
I am a sucker for scary stories. Whether the story's about a ghost, a witch, or a madman, I am all over it. Check out these 10 scary books to read on Halloween and cuddle up next to someone you can grab onto.
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Oct 21, 2009 -
Mad Men creator Matt Weiner has said Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique are major influences on the show, but we have yet to get a gander at any characters reading those books. Yet the characters do read plenty, and thankfully, the books of Mad Men are as carefully chosen, as we'd hope. Each tells us something about the character and the time.
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Oct 20, 2009 -
Widely regarded as the father of underground comics, the famously T & A-obsessed R. Crumb surprised many by deciding to take on the first book of the Bible, the Book of Genesis.
How to reconcile the sacred with the profane?
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Oct 07, 2009 -
For many of us, getting a jump start on self-improvement means trolling the aisles for a self-help book. Some self-help books are awesome and inspire us, while others won't get a second glance because the titles are too bizarre. Can you tell the difference between the real or fake self-help books in this quiz?
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Oct 07, 2009 -
On October 23, 2002, Mildred Muhammad was visited at her Maryland home by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents. They'd come to inform her that her ex-husband, John, had begun shooting people around her. "You are the target," they told her ominously.
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Oct 01, 2009 -
Hundreds of new books clamor for attention on the already-packed shelves at bookstores each month, so we've slushed through all the new titles to bring you the most promising pages of October. Once you've checked out the latest must reads, explore some of the most influential books of all time in our Battle of the Books faceoff.
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Sep 29, 2009 -
Attention lucky readers! Sarah Palin has finished her book Going Rogue: An American Life, just four months after she announced the book deal. The memoir will be released on Nov.
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