http://www.lovethebook.com/ The latest from the lovethebook.com book news rss feed. <i>"You must not tell anyone," my mother said, "what I am about to tell you. In China your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well. We say that your father has all brothers because it's as if she had never been born." </i> http://www.lovethebook.com/news.aspx?id=219 Saturday, March 01, 2008 <i>Food’s under attack from two quarters. It’s under attack from the food industry, which is taking, you know, perfectly good whole foods and tricking them up into highly processed edible food-like substances, and from nutritional science, which has over the years convinced us that we shouldn’t be paying attention to food, it’s really the nutrients that matter. </i> http://www.lovethebook.com/news.aspx?id=218 Saturday, February 16, 2008 <i>Only the word freedom can still exalt me. I consider it capable of sustaining indefinitely the old human fanaticism. Doubtless it satisfies my only legitimate aspiration.</i> - André Breton, <i>Surrealist Manifesto</i> http://www.lovethebook.com/news.aspx?id=217 Saturday, February 02, 2008 "I've got the documents. President Bush, who will go down in history as the great tax cutter, owes almost all of his fortune to a tax increase that was funneled into his pocket." http://www.lovethebook.com/news.aspx?id=216 Monday, January 21, 2008 "The CIA does what it does beause presidents tell it to do those things." http://www.lovethebook.com/news.aspx?id=215 Sunday, December 02, 2007 I have described the waterboarding I was submitted to. And no one can say, having passed through it, that this was not torture, especially when he has endured other types of torture -- burning, electricity and beating, and so on. http://www.lovethebook.com/news.aspx?id=214 Thursday, November 15, 2007 My American Dream is that this country has more opportunities to be extraordinary than any other country around, but it doesn't make us extraordinary. That can make us worse. Here you could be the son of the richest man on earth, and it doesn't mean you're going to be a fabulous fellow. You could end up a monster. http://www.lovethebook.com/news.aspx?id=213 Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights Books in San Francisco in 1953 together with Peter D. Martin. It was the first all paperbound bookstore in the country, a bold idea as at that time, paperback books were not even considered "real books" by the book trade... http://www.lovethebook.com/news.aspx?id=212 Saturday, September 22, 2007 It is no overstatement to say that until his death last week at age 81, Raul Hilberg was "driven by a desire to know what happened" and was never afraid to bring up topics that "no one wanted to talk about". When he first proposed writing his doctoral thesis about the Holocaust ... http://www.lovethebook.com/news.aspx?id=211 Sunday, August 26, 2007 Of all the world's great film-makers, Ingmar Bergman was the greatest writer of them all. http://www.lovethebook.com/news.aspx?id=210 Sunday, August 05, 2007 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said that "impeachment is off the table" and "a waste of time". For many, however, the commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence has become tipping point... http://www.lovethebook.com/news.aspx?id=209 Sunday, July 08, 2007 Three weeks have passed since DePaul University denied tenure to Norman Finkelstein, a professor of political science and outspoken supporter of Palestinian rights who has written numerous works criticizing the policies of Israel and the misuse of the charge of anti-Semitism against opponents of Israeli policies... http://www.lovethebook.com/news.aspx?id=208 Thursday, June 28, 2007 Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind - George Orwell http://www.lovethebook.com/news.aspx?id=207 Friday, June 08, 2007 Hans Koning died last month at the age of 85. Koning was a prolific and omnifarious author who wrote more than 40 fiction and nonfiction books... http://www.lovethebook.com/news.aspx?id=206 Wednesday, May 09, 2007 Many warm-hearted and loving obituaries have been written for Kurt Vonnegut since his death at age 84 two weeks ago... http://www.lovethebook.com/news.aspx?id=205 Tuesday, April 24, 2007