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Believe me when I say Christensen isn't your garden-variety travel writer-memoirist. Strangers in Paradise isn't your garden-variety travel book-memoir, either.
The Texas Observer  |  Josh Rosenblatt  |  01-29-2008  |  Fiction

Buy Some Stuff, Enslave Somebodynew

In Nobodies, John Bowe aims to make explicit the connection between the rise of the global market and the growing number of people throughout the world living in poverty, doomed to spend their lives providing goods and services for people born into wealthier circumstances.
The Texas Observer  |  Josh Rosenblatt  |  12-17-2007  |  Nonfiction

George Saunders' Elements of Stylenew

The essays in The Braindead Megaphone are full of optimism and prescriptions for better living -- it's not self-help, but humanity-help: keys to getting on better in the world by getting on better with others.
The Texas Observer  |  Josh Rosenblatt  |  10-22-2007  |  Nonfiction

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