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Music to Soothe Fred Savage's Breast
- The Field Mice-Missing the Moon
- The Ohio Players-Crying Shame
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Books I Have Read This Year
- Jon Bradshaw: Fast Company (*****)
- Carl Hiassen: Sick Puppy (*****)
- Thane Rosenbaum: Elijah Rising (***)
- Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum: I Want My MTV (*****)
- Joe Eszterhas: Hollywood Animal (****)
- Howard Norman: Kiss In The Hotel Joseph Conrad (****)
- David Buckley: The Thrill Of It All (*****)
- Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky (*****)
- Dick Williams: No More Mr. Nice Guy (*****)
- Alfred Kazin: Starting Out In The Thirties (****)
- Peter Carey: His Illegal Self (*****)
- Charles Frazier: Cold Mountain (***)
- T. Coraghessan Boyle: The Road To Wellville (***)
- William Shakespeare: Coriolanus (**)
- Christopher Brookmyre: Not The End Of The World (***)
- Barry Hannah: Bats Out Of Hell (****)
- Andrzej Szczypiorski: A Mass For Arras (*****)
- (ed.) Dave Eggers: The Best American Non-Required Reading 2002 (*****)
- Henry Bromell: Little America (****)
- Robert Penn Warren: All The King's Men (***)
- Russell Shorto: Descartes' Bones (****)
- Joseph Wood Krutch: If You Don't Mind My Saying So... (***)
- Prof. James Robertson, D.D.: The Old Testament And Its Contents (****)
- Helen DeWitt: The Last Samurai (****)
- David Lehman: The Last Avant-Garde (***)
- (ed.) Dave Eggers: The Best American Non-Required Reading 2009 (***)
- Peter Golenbock: Fenway (*****)
- Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes: P.'s Three Women (****)
- David Pownall: The Raining Tree War (**)
- Melvyn Bragg: Richard Burton (****)
- Lydia Millet: Oh Pure And Radiant Heart (****)
- Booth Tarkington: The Magnificent Ambersons (*****)
- Alexander Pope: Scriblerus (****)
- Mickey Mantle: All My Octobers (*****)
- Maureen O'Hara: 'Tis Herself (*****)
- Jerzy Kosinski: Blind Date (*****)
- Eric Zencey: Panama (***)
- Eric Ambler: Passage Of Arms (****)
- Richard Wright: Native Son (****)
- P.G. Wodehouse: The Girl In Blue (*****)
- Robert MacNeil: Wordstruck (****)
- Keith Waterhouse: Billy Liar (****)
- H.R.F. Keating: The Dog It Was That Died (****)
- (ed.) Gideon Bosker and Lena Lenček: Escape (****)
- Warwick Collins: The Rationalist (****)
- James Conaway: Memphis Afternoons (***)
- Bill Mauldin: Up Front (*****)
- Josef Škvorecký: The Republic Of Whores (***)
- Robert MacNeil: The Right Place At The Right Time (*****)
- Ryszard Kapuściński: The Soccer War (****)
- C.P. Snow: Death Under Sail (****)
- Lee Durkee: Rides Of The Midway (****)
- Martin Booth: The Industry Of Souls (****)
- Michael Brownstein: Country Cousins (***)
- (ed.) Mike Jay and Michael Neve: 1900 (*****)
- Evgeny Popov: The Soul Of A Patriot (*****)
- Salman Rushdie: Imaginary Homelands (*****)
- Louis Begley: Mistler's Exit (****)
- (ed.) Ann Charters: The Portable Sixties Reader (*****)
- Nicholas Dawidoff: The Catcher Was A Spy (*****)
- David P. Barash & Nanelle R. Barash: Madame Bovary's Ovaries (***)
- (ed.) Malcolm Bradbury: The Penguin Book Of Modern British Short Stories (****)
- Reif Larsen: The Selected Works Of T.S. Spivet (*****)
- Ogden Nash: Ogden Nash's Zoo (*****)
- J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (*****)
- Granta 51: Big Men (****)
- Henry Miller: Europe After The War (***)
- Sybille Bedford: Quicksands (*****)
- David Dimbleby & David Reynolds: An Ocean Apart (****)
- (ed.) Keath Fraser: Bad Trips (****)
- James Ellroy: Killer On The Road (*****)
- Brian Hall: The Saskiad (***)
- Arnold Wesker: As Much As I Dare (****)
- The Vintage Contemporaries Reader (***)
- John Hersey: Life Sketches (*****)
- Isak Dinesen: Out Of Africa & Shadows On The Grass (*****)
- Rory Stewart: The Places In Between (****)
- James McManus: Positively Fifth Street (****)
- Thomas Hardy: The Mayor Of Casterbridge (*****)
- Karl Shapiro: Reports Of My Death (****)
- Robert Bly: Iron John (**)
- Jack Higgins: Dark Justice (*****)
The Year In Cinema
- : Marley (*****)
- : The Avengers (**)
- : Bernie (*****)
- : Headhunters (*****)
- : Darling Companion (*)
- : Damsels In Distress (*****)
- : The Three Stooges (*****)
- : Rampart (*****)
- : The Kid With A Bike (***)
- : Mirror Mirror (*****)
- : Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (*****)
- : The Hunger Games (****)
- : Coriolanus (*****)
- : A Separation (*****)
- : In Darkness (****)
- : Thin Ice (*****)
- : The Woman In Black (*****)
- : Haywire (*****)
- : The Iron Lady (*****)
- : Carnage (*****)
- : Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (*****)
- : War Horse (*****)
- : The Artist (*****)
- : A Dangerous Method (*****)
The Slaves
- C/Tyler Flowers (CWS) C/Ramon Hernandez (COL) 1B/Gaby Sanchez (MIA) 2B/Michael Cuddyer (COL) 3B/Jose Bautista (TOR) 3B/Kyle Seager (SEA) SS/Astrubal Cabrera (CLE) CM/Adam Lind (TOR) MI/Jed Lowrie (HOU) OF/Dexter Fowler (COL) OF/Brett Gardner (NYY) OF/B.J. Upton (TAM) OF/Justin Upton (ARI) OF/Dayan Viciedo (CWS) OF/Giancarlo Stanton (MIA) DH/Yuniesky Betancourt (KC) RES/Craig Gentry (TEX) RES/Alexi Casilla (MIN) RES/Jason Bourgeois (KC) RES/Tyler Pastornicky (ATL) P/Frank Francisco (NYM) P/Matt Harrison (TEX) P/Brandon McCarthy (OAK) P/Mark Buehrle (MIA) P/Jeremy Hellickson (TAM) P/Alex Cobb (TAM) P/Anibal Sanchez (MIA) P/Jordan Walden (LAA) P/Ted Lilly (LAD) RES/ Brian Roberts (BAL) RES/Jeff Niemann (TAM) RES/Juan Cruz (PIT) RES/Kevin Correia (PIT)
