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It’s time for some ‘Pop Culture Shock Therapy’
By Andrew Segedin / Reporter (Dec. 2, 2010) — There’s an inebriated Jiminy Cricket, Aquaman being given a Viking’s funeral in a toilet bowl, and Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes depicted as a throw rug under an adult Calvin’s feet. These are three examples of the unique, off-beat, and, yes, sometimes crude humor of cartoonist [...]
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Kam Williams reviews Soledad O’Brien’s newest book
By Kam Williams / Critic (Nov. 11, 2010) — “I began life as the child of a mixed-race marriage growing up in a white suburb, treated sometimes as a creature of bad circumstance. … Bad things happen until good people get in the way. “I learned this life lesson growing up in Smithtown, Long Island, [...]
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Rutherford physician pens brand-new book
By Andrew Segedin / Reporter RUTHERFORD (Sept. 30, 2010) — “That Girl’s Not Right” is not a self-help book. There is no talk of clinical studies or medical jargon. Only one story takes place in a medical setting. In fact, what’s most interesting about the book, written by Rutherford physician Kathleen Wooton, is that it’s [...]
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James Ellroy talks women, Beethoven, dogs
By John Soltes / Editor in Chief (Sept. 30, 2010) — The rough-and-tumble prose of James Ellroy, the overlord of neo-noir in the book-publishing world, has always seemed the product of a man’s man: profanity-laced dialogue, strong but flawed male protagonists and tons of schmoozing and smooching. But recently, Ellroy, who penned “L.A. Confidential” and [...]
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