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Tomato Nation Read-Along #16, Special Blotter Edition: Poll
September 24, 2012 – 11:26 PM | 10 Comments
Tomato Nation Read-Along #16, Special Blotter Edition: Poll

By request of a few readers, an all-crime selection of potential Read-Along books. I tried to give you a good range of crimes — arsons, assassinations, Mafiosi, paper-hangers — but as you may or may …

11 Things I Learned From Manchester’s The Death of a President
August 31, 2012 – 3:59 PM | 10 Comments
11 Things I Learned From Manchester’s <em>The Death of a President</em>

The President is supposed to stand still during “Hail to the Chief,” and/or salute the flag. (27)
“At Brooks Kennedy had tried to rest briefly in the Lincoln while the First Lady made her farewells. Harassed …

Suffering Succotash: Live Chat
July 26, 2012 – 12:01 PM | 15 Comments
<I>Suffering Succotash</I>: Live Chat

Quiz Suffering Succotash author Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic about raisins, tomatoes, and pudding skin TONIGHT! Live chat 8:30 PM ET, Thursday July 26!
The chat window should appear below; it will update to “live” at 8:30 PM ET …

TN Read-Along #15: Suffering Succotash
July 25, 2012 – 5:09 AM | 88 Comments
TN Read-Along #15: <I>Suffering Succotash</I>

“What do you mean raisins ‘don’t totally suck,’ Jacques?”
Just a reminder that this is a couple weeks away! The freebies have gone out, so if you still need a copy, try one of the links …

Your True-Crime Hall of Fame
July 19, 2012 – 4:52 PM | 95 Comments
Your True-Crime Hall of Fame

A question for you about true-crime books, even if you don’t think of yourself as reading much true crime: Which books would you put in a true-crime canon? If someone comes to you and asks …

Too Much Money
March 27, 2012 – 5:07 PM | One Comment
<I>Too Much Money</I>

Doddsie, who put propriety above everything else, had never forgotten nor forgiven Elias Renthal’s reverberating fart on his exit from the Butterfield nearly eight years earlier, after he had been kicked out of the hallowed …

TN Read-Along #14: The Great Influenza Discussion Thread
March 20, 2012 – 2:37 AM | 18 Comments
TN Read-Along #14: <I>The Great Influenza</I> Discussion Thread

Institutions are a strange mix of the mass and the individual. They abstract. They behave according to a set of rules that substitute both for individual judgments and for the emotional responses that occur whenever …

TN Read-Along #14: The Great Influenza
February 27, 2012 – 4:08 PM | 14 Comments
TN Read-Along #14: <I>The Great Influenza</I>

(cue “I don’t see what’s so great about it” jokes)
Hey, remember everything that ISN’T the Oscars Death Race? Me neither! Awesome! …I’m so sorry about the protracted service interruption, guys. I’ve missed you, and all …

Tomato Nation Read-Along #14: Poll
January 19, 2012 – 5:49 PM | 14 Comments
Tomato Nation Read-Along #14: Poll

Plagues and Bible-thumpers hang on from our last poll, plus the Fug Girls, VJs, and a brick of a book about Nixon and Carter. Pick us out a good one!

TN Read-Along #13: Inside Scientology Discussion Thread
December 18, 2011 – 12:15 PM | 59 Comments
TN Read-Along #13: <I>Inside Scientology</I> Discussion Thread

William Poundstone is pretty good with a low-pH zinger. In Bigger Secrets, a book I’ve reread a hundred times thanks primarily to Poundstone’s “…seriously?” prose, he gives this account of Scientology’s handling of Hubbard’s death:
Finally …