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When Genna Hewett-Meade, daughter of privilege (and a radical, paranoid lawyer father), goes off to Schyler college (which her Quaker relatives founded) in the 70s, she keeps an open mind and tries her best to keep her nose to the proverbial grindstone. Genna is matched with Minette Swift, a black Reverend’s daughter from Washington D.C.…

We all know the story of Anne Frank through her diary entries, but what if we could hear the ordeal through someone else’s eyes? Enter author Shannon Dogar, who tells us the story through Peter’s eyes, using the Frank diary, recorded history and even some creative fiction. We find out through this three year recorded…

Chelsea Handler holds nothing back in this collection of essays in her first book My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands. To say she’s blatantly poignant would be a lie, however there are poignant-moments within her essays that resound within readers. And Chelsea covers topics that are both familiar to the reader and so…

Zombies are big lately, and the outpouring of zombie literature can be somwhat frustrating–it’s hard to tell if it’s a good piece of original fiction or something we’ve already heard. Enter Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament. No, it’s not based on a classic novel. No, it’s not a novelization of an upcoming movie–it’s a sort of…

Anthony Bourdain has become a household name through his various non-fiction, fiction and television pursuits. Bourdain’s newest, Medium Raw, is a stunning, honest memoir. Bourdain uses this new book to speak about a lot of his beliefs. Much of the uneven flame from Kitchen Confidential has now steadied as it should. Bourdain is at a…

Rolling Stone writer (and VH-1 Personality) Rob Sheffield takes us back to the halcyon days of the 80s in Talking to Girls about Duran Duran, where music and his sisters helped him navigate through the often muddy waters of the unfamiliar, fairer, sex. Peppered with anecdotes such as:’One thing about growing up Catholic is that…