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Three quickie book reviews

2 hours ago ago from Extended Play

Michael Chabon – The Yiddish Policemen’s Union This was a really cool book. It’s kind of a combination of Mordecai Richler and Raymond Chandler, a hard-boiled detective story set in a Jewish settlement in Alaska in it’s end times, before it reverts back to the US and it’s population is kicked out. Meyer Landsman, a dectective imploding into his own vices tackles a murder that takes him deep into conspiracies, a sect of orthodox Jews ...

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New Book on the VRA and Language Minorities

17 hours ago ago from Votelaw, Edward Still's blog on law and politics

James Tucker's new book, The Battle over Bilingual Ballots: Language Minorities and Political Access Under the Voting Rights Act has been published by Ashgate. For information on the book, including a table of contents, preface, and index (you can give it the old Washington-once-over to see if you are listed in the index), go here . There is also a discount link there, as well. .

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Interview ~ Mike Mason

23 hours ago ago from Novel Journey

Mike Mason calls himself a “Purveyor of Fine Sentences.” That’s because he writes sentences, not books. Told by someone that a writer’s job is to make good sentences and the rest will look after itself, he tries to make every sentence true and beautiful. For Mike, this is not just a philosophy of writing but of life. He believes it’s moments that count, more than the grand scheme. His first great moment happened in 1952 when he came into ...

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Minority Grants

7 hours ago ago from MoneyMaiden - How to build wealth, save time and live a better life

Times have changed and minority groups in the U.S. are finally receiving equal opportunities in America's post secondary education system. If you are an African American living in the U.S., now is a time to take advantage of the education grants available for minorities. In fact out of all the different types of grants available, these minority grants are the easiest to get. This is because the government is making its biggest effort to ...

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Book Review - "Generosity: An Enhancement" by Richard Powers | California Literary Review

12 hours ago ago from California Literary Review: Books, Art, Movies, Performing Arts

“Only connect,” Forster counseled. Richard Powers has been connecting — richly and deeply — from his first novel, the 1985 Three Farmers On Their Way to a Dance , which linked photography, Henry Ford’s invention of mass production, and a young computer designer’s romantic challenges in 1980s Boston; to his ninth, the National Book Award-winning The Echo Maker (also a Pulitzer finalist for 2006), in which the reader encounters a ...

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