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Jay McInerney Satirizes New Yorker-Style Fact-Checking in 'Bright Lights, Big City,' A Defining Novel of the 1980s
The book that put spring in the step of the phrase “Bolivian marching powder” A lot of people have suggested that book publishers need to adopt the system used in the fact-checking depar… more »
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Jay McInerney Satirizes New Yorker-Style Fact-Checking in 'Bright Lights, Big City,' A Defining Novel of the 1980s
1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 3 months ago: The book that put spring in the step of the phrase “Bolivian marching powder” A lot of … more »
Win a Copy of Holly Peterson's 'The Manny'
1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 1 year ago: What! You STILL want to read Holly Peterson’s The Manny after all I wrote this week about its … more »
Review of Holly Peterson’s ‘The Manny’: The Worst Sex Scenes Ever Published in a Novel Excerpted by Newsweek?
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1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 1 year ago: A rich Manhattanite hires a male nanny for her 9-year-old son and gets more than she bargained for T … more »
A Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guide to Holly Peterson’s ‘The Manny’
1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 1 year ago: 10 Discussion Questions for Book Clubs and Others The Manny By Holly Peterson This readers’ gu … more »
Second Runner-up for the 2007 Delete Key Award: 'The Emperor’s Children' by Claire Messud
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1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 1 year ago: The second runner-up for the 2007 Delete Key Award for the year’s worst writing in books is … more »
Before Bridget Jones, There Was Gail Parent's Sheila Levine
1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 1 year ago: A dark satire of pre-Sex and the City mating rituals in New York that still towers over most books i … more »
