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  1. John Gallaher writes this week's Poet's Choice: "Watermelon in the Afternoon" http://u.nu/83gx3 #poetry about 3 hours ago from web
  2. Joan Waugh's new #biography of US GRANT is "exceptionally thoughtful and valuable": http://bit.ly/6jv6VM #history #UShistory about 5 hours ago from web
  3. Joseph Sebarenzi's new #memoir complicates rosy image of #Rwanda President #Kagame: http://bit.ly/5j8UIm Excerpt here: http://bit.ly/5JcYgx about 6 hours ago from API
  4. Former WashPost Exec Editor Len Downie praises Harold Evans' "readable almost wistful #memoir": http://bit.ly/8ainaq #newspapers #journalism about 6 hours ago from API
  5. I must get Margaret Drabble's puzzling new #memoir PATTERN IN THE CARPET for my folks: http://bit.ly/8pbXq1 #puzzles #books #gifts about 7 hours ago from web
  6. In new book SCROOGENOMICS, Joel Waldfogel complains about #gifts : http://bit.ly/6QVC17 #xmas #economics #scrooge about 7 hours ago from web
  7. @thebookmaven But I have only daughters! (Not complaining.) I've been out of the classroom, alas, for a dozen years. (Now I'm complaining!) about 7 hours ago from web in reply to thebookmaven
  8. @LibbyJordan Older teen boy might like Russell Banks' v. gritty RULE OF THE BONE. McCarthy's THE ROAD? Crichton's GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY? about 7 hours ago from web in reply to LibbyJordan
  9. @chrisrayn83 I'm sorry, too, Chris. The Book World podcast was great fun. We're all just trying to figure out what works, what doesn't. about 7 hours ago from web in reply to chrisrayn83
  10. Wash Post #food editor complains that Jonathan Safran Foer's #EatingAnimals is "as 1-sided as #PETA": http://bit.ly/8YzIY9 #vegetarian about 8 hours ago from web
  11. Libraries try luring in teen boys with video games: http://bit.ly/698lPF #library #libraries #playstation #wii about 8 hours ago from API
  12. John Gallaher writes this week's Poet's Choice: "Watermelon in the Afternoon" http://u.nu/83gx3 #poetry 2:04 PM Nov 21st from web
  13. Memoir writer (sometimes tennis player) Andre Agassi tells Vanity Fair his favorite writers are C.S. Lewis and J.R. Moehringer. 12:22 PM Nov 21st from Twitterrific
  14. Smart review/essay about Isaiah Berlin: http://bit.ly/55zBii 11:34 AM Nov 21st from Twitterrific
  15. Read Herant Katchadourian's reflections on GUILT: THE BITE OF CONSCIENCE. You'll feel better....: http://bit.ly/8POtee 10:43 AM Nov 21st from web
  16. The Wash Post Sunday book reviews have slipped up early on the web: http://bit.ly/rfRNx 9:43 AM Nov 21st from API
  17. Wash Post says the design for the new Bush Library at SMU is just right for the man and the campus: http://bit.ly/8Ll7Jp 8:43 AM Nov 21st from API
  18. Correction: Here's working link for obit of feminist writer Alice Rossi: http://bit.ly/1y7gxw 8:01 AM Nov 21st from web
  19. Obit for Alice Rossi, feminist writer & founding member of NOW: http://bit.ly/7wuRL2,0,3422... 7:44 AM Nov 21st from API
  20. A rare negative review for Alice Munroe's TOO MUCH HAPPINESS: http://u.nu/9ycx3 7:03 AM Nov 21st from web
  • Name Ron Charles
  • Location Washington, DC
  • Web http://www.washin...
  • Bio Washington Post Book World, Fiction Editor and weekly critic. CharlesR@washpost.com
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