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Elsewhere In The Tomatoverse: Moving The Chains
February 12, 2014 – 9:51 PM | No Comment
Elsewhere In The Tomatoverse: Moving The Chains

Football, figure skating, and France.

Lust For Fame: The Stage Career of John Wilkes Booth
February 8, 2014 – 8:37 AM | 10 Comments
<em>Lust For Fame: The Stage Career of John Wilkes Booth</em>

The curtain fell on Romeo with a sprained thumb, a good deal of hair on his sleeve, Juliet in rags and two white shoes lying in the corner of the stage! — Kate Reignolds, Booth’s …

The Grand Surprise: The Journals Of Leo Lerman
January 26, 2014 – 10:26 AM | 5 Comments
<em>The Grand Surprise: The Journals Of Leo Lerman</em>

I read about Leo Lerman’s journals in The New Yorker, I think.

The Vine: January 3, 2014
January 3, 2014 – 7:51 AM | 17 Comments
The Vine: January 3, 2014

I could use some help finding a YA series from you and your readers.

The Vine: December 13, 2013
December 13, 2013 – 8:58 AM | 18 Comments
The Vine: December 13, 2013

I’m hoping the Nation can help me with a jewelry search.

Elsewhere in the Tomatoverse: Survey Says
December 12, 2013 – 12:00 PM | 7 Comments
Elsewhere in the Tomatoverse: Survey Says

It’s Game Show Week at Previously.TV!

The Vine: December 4, 2013
December 4, 2013 – 10:36 AM | 10 Comments
The Vine: December 4, 2013

Welcome back to the Happy Hellidays iteration of The Vine — it’s all Ask The Readers and holiday etiquette from now ’til New Year’s.

This Republic of Suffering: Good deaths
June 10, 2013 – 10:22 AM | 5 Comments
<I>This Republic of Suffering</I>: Good deaths

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War is an overview of how Americans managed death, in response to a larger and more sustained barrage of it than anyone could have previously imagined.

Get Happy: Way up high
May 4, 2013 – 10:13 AM | 8 Comments
<I>Get Happy</I>: Way up high

I knew scarcely anything about Judy Garland before I read Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland; I don’t know much more about her now.

Down at the End of Lonely Street: The King still has no clothes
March 11, 2013 – 11:45 AM | 2 Comments
<I>Down at the End of Lonely Street</I>: The King still has no clothes

If you only have time in your life for one Elvis Presley biography, and can’t commit to the diaristic detail of the two-volume Guralnick, you could do worse than Down at the end of Lonely …