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When Words Collidenew

With Believer Books, Dorna Khazeni enters the rarely profitable world of translation to bring France's literary bad boy Michel Houellebecq to America.
East Bay Express  |  David Downs  |  06-27-2005  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dorna Khazeni

Fandom -- Ultimately, It's All About Younew

Several books demonstrate, not always intentionally, that celebrity is ultimately all about us and how we use stars as models and mirrors.
East Bay Express  |  Anneli Rufus  |  05-10-2005  |  Nonfiction
Tags: vintage, Various Titles, Various Authors, Random House, $23.95, $24.95, Bloomsbury, By Jennie Erdal, By Michael Joseph Gross, By Peter Carey, By Ruth Reichl, By Tom Reiss, Doubleday, Garlic and Sapphires, Ghosting, My Life as a Fake, Penguin Press, Starstruck, The Orientalist

Author Traces Hip-Hop's Past to Reveal Its Futurenew

Chang's thick book reveals that hip-hop is inherently socioeconomic and sociopolitical, and is linked to activism's double-edged sword of violence and peace.
East Bay Express  |  Eric K. Arnold  |  02-08-2005  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jeff Chang, and Kool Lady Blue, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Doze Green, Kool Herc, New York street gangs

It Was This Bignew

If everyone's as busy as they claim to be, we have to wonder at the current renaissance in mountainous novels.
East Bay Express  |  Anneli Rufus  |  11-29-2004  |  Fiction
Tags: Various Authors, Holiday Reading
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