Harvey Blume

Nix Chick Lit

November 14, 2005
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Anyone who reads this bestselling, critically acclaimed novel becomes part of the focus group for the inevitable television or Hollywood stinker.

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Book Review: Don’t Fear the Cyborg

September 15, 2005
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An engaging new memoir explores how the fusion of man and machine is about maintaining humanity, not creating monsters.

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Warning: Outsider Art

August 15, 2005
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An increasingly popular movement in the visual arts prides itself on picturing everything that is the raw, untutored, and irrational.

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Book Review: The Art of B.S.

April 13, 2005
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A new book gives a philosophical analysis of American culture’s obsession with nonsense.

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Book Review: Social “Darling”

November 22, 2004
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This novel about an American radical of the ’60s who flees to Africa displays a cool grasp of the barbaric machinations of globalization.

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Book Review: Target — The White House

October 21, 2004
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By Harvey Blume Nicholson Baker’s new novel is about a man obsessed with killing President Bush. Checkpoint: A Novel by Nicholson Baker. (Knopf) Nicholson Baker’s short, funny — and frequently tender — new novel consists of a conversation between Ben and Jay, high school buddies who haven’t seen each other in a few years, and…

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