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John Berendt’s lush, gossipy Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was a game-changer when it came out in the late ’90s. The narrative was so strong in this nonfiction, that our patrons kept looking for it in the fiction stacks and discussing the “characters” they liked the most. This true crime travelogue uses [...]

How do I love thee, PBS costume drama? Let’s start with Downton Abbey. I don’t need to understand whatever weird wistfulness is going on in the American psyche to make this series such a post-recession hit. I just know that it is, and because it’s British and it’s historical nobody watching feels guilty about making [...]

While The Rumpus.net isn’t  a book website per se  (it’s more of a literary/culture site), they do feature plenty of book news and features, making it Crush-worthy.  What I really liked was this statement from their manifesto:  “Nobody’s paying any attention, for example, to books that have been out for a couple of months and [...]