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Fifty Shades of Chicken Is a Sexy Chicken Cookbooknew

FINALLY! You and your chicken can get trussed and like it. A cookbook, due out November 13, parodies the last book you wanted to see on your mom's nightstand. With promises of rather tempting recipes for "Bacon Bound Wings," "Chicken with a Lardon" and "Mustard-Spanked Chicken," Fifty Shades of Chicken is taking cookbookdom to a whole new level.
Dallas Observer  |  Sara Blankenship  |  09-21-2012  |  Books

Quincy Jones Can't Help But Look Back on His Life and Legacynew

Jones' mesmerizing coffee-table history is cobbled together from the scraps of a life collected by his sister-in-law Gloria and bookended by a Maya Angelou preface, a Clint Eastwood foreword, a Bono introduction and a Sidney Poitier afterword.
Dallas Observer  |  Robert Wilonsky  |  03-16-2009  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

'Bordertown' Depicts True Life and History on the Mexican Bordernew

With Bordertown, Gusky and Johnson intend to provide a historical and cultural narrative that seems to be missing from contemporary conflicts.
Dallas Observer  |  Megan Feldman  |  10-20-2008  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

Stefan Merrill Block Makes Peace with a Family Cursenew

In the tradition of James Joyce, who abandoned his native Ireland at a young age but could never stop writing about it, Block is a 26-year-old wunderkind who got to the brink of fame in his new residence of Brooklyn, New York, by ruminating on his Texas roots.
Dallas Observer  |  Ben Westhoff  |  05-05-2008  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

Where There's a Willnew

Author Will Clarke has a deal with a New York publisher and a Hollywood studio, and it only took him eight years to become an overnight success.
Dallas Observer  |  Robert Wilonsky  |  08-15-2005  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

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