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    November 2, 2012
    Book Report: Author: Brutal honesty liberates
    Recently, a thoughtful friend dropped by and shoved a book in my gut and said, "Read this. I think you'll enjoy it." He's not in the habit of...
    LifeNovember 2, 2012 - 8:39am
    October 25, 2012
    Not all is "buono" in Italia
    My wife and I love to travel to Italy.
    columns/LifeOctober 25, 2012 - 3:37pm
    October 18, 2012
    Book Report: Nothing that simple in Amish land
    Several writers are taking their cues from earlier centuries. In the 18th century, Samuel Richardson found he had a bestseller on his hands...
    columns/LifeOctober 18, 2012 - 10:23am
    October 10, 2012
    Book Report: What readers crave: Clear, lively wordplay
    Today we'll examine two new books that have to do with good writing by writers who are indeed very good. One such writer is Verlyn Klinkenborg,...
    LifeOctober 10, 2012 - 3:24pm
    September 27, 2012
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    Book Review: Insider knowledge leads to gripping story; Feingold's "While America Sleeps"
    White Bear Lake novelist Julie Kramer makes good use of her past experience as a news producer for NBC, CBS and WCCO-TV, which is only one reason...
    columns/LifeSeptember 27, 2012 - 12:20pm
    September 19, 2012
    Book Report: Memories: Looking back on what was, wasn't and the many paths not taken
    When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself...
    LifeSeptember 19, 2012 - 4:02pm
    September 7, 2012
    Book Report: Exposing the underbelly of old D.C.
    It's no secret that talent runs in families. Years ago I worked with Anthony Morley on the Minneapolis Tribune. Tony was a brilliant writer,...
    LifeSeptember 7, 2012 - 8:46am
    August 29, 2012
    Book Report: This author shines as voice of a community
    Novelist Toni Morrison has won the National Book Critics Circle, the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for her fiction. Little wonder. Her...
    columns/LifeAugust 29, 2012 - 3:10pm
    August 24, 2012
    Book Review: Did she or didn't she: Does it even matter?
    Dorothy Parker was born on this day 119 years ago in West End, N.J., just a year after poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, about which Parker said...
    columns/LifeAugust 24, 2012 - 9:44am
    August 17, 2012
    Book Report: Remedy/curse: Drug highs and lows
    Thomas De Quincy was born on this day in 1785, and would later write an eerie book that captured the romantic imagination, "Confessions of an...
    columns/LifeAugust 17, 2012 - 9:10am
    August 9, 2012
    Book Report: Big heart for a big 'horse' of a guy
    I was in high school when Heisman Trophy winner Alan Ameche was making big news on Big Ten gridirons. The University of Wisconsin sent films...
    LifeAugust 9, 2012 - 2:40pm
    August 2, 2012
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    Book Report: This mystery worthy of Masterpiece Theatre
    I'm not a big fan of detective novels in general, but I'm a sucker for the works of Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse ever since I bought a...
    LifeAugust 2, 2012 - 3:46pm
    July 30, 2012
    Book Report: Duluth poet: A blunt, dazzling wordsmith
    Normally I write about two books each week -- one national and one regional. This week I'll mention just one because it straddles both categories...
    columns/LifeJuly 30, 2012 - 8:35am
    July 18, 2012
    Book Report: Historical tinkering makes for lively reading
    I've written before about alternative history and writers like Harry Turtledove. He writes what I like to call "what if" novels. Like what if...
    LifeJuly 18, 2012 - 4:44pm
    July 12, 2012
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    Book Report: 'Birdseye' look at frozen food, more
    Mark Kurlansky astounded the reading world several years ago when he wrote "Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World." Later he did...
    Food/LifeJuly 12, 2012 - 2:11pm
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