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December 2007:: issue 50

Books This Month
1.	Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
2.	Foreskin's Lament by Shalom Auslander
3.	Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm
4.	The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
5.	Greed by Elfriede Jelinek
6.	Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano
7.	Double Game by Sophie Calle with Paul Auster
	More 2007 Recommendations Feature: Year-End Recap Book News Credits/About Us

Year-End
As the publishing world pondered electronic ink and digital paper this month, we were busy flipping through stacks of this year's best books. We have to overlook many terrific titles in our monthly themed issues, so each December we add a couple of extra sections to catch up with what we missed: a recap of our '07 coverage, and more short-takes of titles that deserve to be given or received. We decided to pass on recommending titles by Pynchon, DeLillo, and other high-profile and brilliant authors whom you'll see on many year-end lists — instead, we'll give you a few more original recommendations for titles you might not know already. Besides, the beauty of paper-and-ink books is that (for now) you can pick up an obscure gem just as easily as a bestseller. Until e-readers have the flexibility of MP3 players, we'll keep reviewing books of the analog persuasion.

- Toby Warner, Managing Editor

NONFICTION

Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer


Published:	November 2007
Pages:	256
Publisher:	Houghton Mifflin
Links: Author blog Author bio Seed articles

“Lehrer asserts that a slew of modernist artists 'foretold the facts of the future' — that they implied structures and patterns of the brain that science would only later confirm.”

Review
During a stint working in the lab of Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel, Jonah Lehrer would read Swann's Way while he waited for experiments to finish. It occurred to him there that Proust had understood many decades earlier what science was only now discovering about the fickleness and fluidity of memory. Art, not science, was first to arrive at the truth.

In this series of eight essays, Lehrer asserts that a slew of modernist artists 'foretold the facts of the future' — that they implied structures and patterns of the brain that science would only later confirm. He shows, for example, how Gertrude Stein revealed the "deep structure" of language half a century before Noam Chomsky would coin the term. Lehrer's connections are not always airtight; the first two essays, on Walt Whitman and George Eliot, stretch and contort but do not convince. In the third, however, Lehrer tells a story of veal stock that is nearly rapturous. Here we learn of chef Auguste Escoffier who, in his lavish turn-of-the-century meals, intuited not only the existence of a fifth taste (receptors for which scientists discovered less than a decade ago) but also that context — ambiance — influences our palate just as much as flavor.

Lehrer's enthusiasm for his subject is contagious. If he is occasionally over-earnest, even cute ("there is no such thing as immaculate perception"), it doesn't deter us. As accidents bloom into breakthroughs, we thrill along with him. He tells how Stravinsky's Rite of Spring literally incited its first audience to riot, and there is something of the detective story in learning why, just a few years later, people found beauty in its frenetic dissonance.

In a coda, the author states that his goal is to mend the broken dialog between science and the arts. Science is good for understanding our components, for reducing the effects of Cézanne's stabs of color to scads of neurons now firing, now silent. But as Lehrer writes, "Any explanation of our experience solely in terms of our neurons will never explain our experience, because we don't experience our neurons. . . . The self feels whole, but all science can see is its parts." Science and art complement each other, he argues. Both are necessary.
- Alexander Cuadros

MEMOIR

Foreskin's Lament by Shalom Auslander


Published:	October 2007
Pages:	310
Publisher:	Riverhead
Links: Author website IHT review Bookslut interview Fresh Air interview NY Times feature

“Auslander never stops believing in God; he just stops believing He's that great a guy.”

Review
Foreskin's Lament is an uncommon book of prayer. Ostensibly, the memoir chronicles Shalom Auslander's childhood in an Orthodox Jewish household, his great escape from the fold, and the birth of his firstborn son, Paix. But mostly, it chronicles fear. The God of the Old Testament, the God of Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham — the God Auslander and his family follow is like a cranky cosmic math teacher. He keeps a running tally of your mitzvahs in one column, and of your sins (aveirus) in another. At the end of class, if the latter exceeds the former, He'll consign you to detention for all time.

As the son of the Ur-Jewish mother (i.e., worried and worrisome) and an alcoholic, abusive father still shattered by the untimely death of what would have been Shalom's older brother, Auslander desperately tries to keep peace in the home and his head above the deep water of temptation. He fails on both counts. The rules are too many, too strict, too Byzantine (or worse, Mosaic); the Slim Jims too tasty; the skin mags too enticing. It doesn't take long for the author to grow weary of trying to win over God. Soon he's smoking pot, shoplifting, breaking the Sabbath, and every one of the 613 mitzvoth. He'd become a "bad kid," alienated and angry at the Almighty.

Jews are people of the Book. Words are heavy, real, and powerful. Even when shoplifting, Auslander would steal books by Beckett and Kafka. Foreskin's Lament is a dialog — often plaintive or angry, and always honest — between Him and he who was created in His own image. Angry words are shot across this world and the next, between two guys who have known each other for a lifetime. Auslander never stops believing in God; he just stops believing He's that great a guy. Like an inverted Hallelujah, Auslander calls out to God: "Cocksucker, prick, motherfucker! Go ahead and smite me, you bastard. I'm still eating this Big Mac." But, despite the curses, Foreskin's Lament is a profane prayer for peace between God and man.
- Joshua David Stein

NONFICTION

Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm


Published:	September 2007
Pages:	240
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Links: Guardian review Malcolm's The Silent Woman NY Review of Books articles NY Times review London Times review

“Malcolm writes both a new take on the lives of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas and a treatise on the nature of biography — specifically, a biographer's responsibilities when placing private, complicated lives in the public record.”

Review
Janet Malcolm stands atop a notorious pedestal in the world of journalists. Past reactions to her work include mudslinging from critics and libel suits from her subjects. She's been accused of lying, solipsism, and slandering the entire journalistic profession. Her crime? Making her case most deliberately in The Journalist and the Murderer, Malcolm suggests that nonfiction writers are likely to use manipulation, chicanery, or equivocation to write premeditated stories. What she has lost in bad publicity and peer support, however, her readers have gained in meticulous, multifaceted works.

Such hyperawareness of the nonfiction-writing process results in books that tell multiple stories. In the case of Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, Malcolm writes both a new take on the lives of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas and a treatise on the nature of biography — specifically, a biographer's responsibilities when placing private, complicated lives in the public record. Who better to spur a study of the biography as literature than Stein, whose The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas flipped the premise of (auto)biography on its head?

Two Lives stands out in the vast collection of Stein biographies because Malcolm does not set out to unlock the hermetic language of the author's genius, but to answer the chilling question, "How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians escaped the Nazis?" Collective memory, it seems, had neutered the couple's sexuality and absolved them of their religion — perhaps because, as Malcolm notes, the words "lesbian" and "Jewish" rarely, if ever, appear in the literary, nonfiction, or epistolary works of either woman.

While chasing an elusive answer, Malcolm emerges as the main character in her book, with the creative process as its framework. Herein lies the book's attraction; Two Lives is truly a writer's work for writers, a mellifluous recording of the ad-hoc process of writing a biography on Stein's peculiar legacy, veiled as it was by her shrewd protectorate, Toklas.
- McKay McFadden

NONFICTION

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross


Published:	October 2007
Pages:	640
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Links: Author blog New Yorker articles NY Times review NY Observer profile YouTube interview iTunes playlist

“An epic, incisive, and accessible account of a musical tradition's struggle to engage with a world of unprecedented change.”

Review
It's only fitting that the history of classical music in the 20th century was as tumultuous (if not as bloody) as the epoch that produced it. In the same way that the century's disintegrating monarchies gave way to competing ideologies such as communism, fascism, and democracy, music after Mahler fractured into various schools of dogma and doctrine that sought alternately to break free from tradition, engage it in dialogue, and occasionally reclaim it. And now, in a world of global capitalism that's at once liberal and hegemonic, contemporary classical music draws freely from all aspects of its past, as well as from non-classical sources, relatively freed from the anxiety of influence.

The term "classical" is, of course, fraught with meaning — and misleading. As New Yorker music critic Alex Ross makes clear, by mid-century many of the ostensible inheritors of notational Western music wanted nothing more than to repudiate the very aspects — tonality, rhythm, harmony — that defined it as classical. Work by composers such as John Cage and La Monte Young feels closer to conceptual performance art than to music, classical or otherwise. And that was precisely the point: to expand the definition of music to its outermost limits.

So fierce and inconstant was change in the 20th century that Igor Stravinsky could go from being considered riotously transgressive — although Ross points out that Rite of Spring was hailed as a triumph within days of its notorious premiere — to passé and reactionary in the course of his lifetime. Although not quite the "history of the twentieth century through its music" that its publishers would have you believe it to be, The Rest Is Noise is nonetheless an epic, incisive, and accessible account of a musical tradition's struggle to engage with a world of unprecedented change.
- Chris Parris-Lamb

FICTION

Greed by Elfriede Jelinek


Published:	April 2007
Pages:	336
Publisher:	Seven Stories Press
Links: Author website NY Review of Books profile Literary Review Review Guardian review NY Times review

“The plot is merely a foundation for Jelinek's poly-vocal stream-of-consciousness ranting, as she alternates the characters' cliché-laced thoughts with her own scathing indictments.”

Review
Viewers of the devastating film The Piano Teacher, based on Elfriede Jelinek's autobiographical novel, should consider themselves forewarned about the sadomasochistic tenor of this divisive Austrian writer's books. No exception, Greed (2000) is the author's first novel translated into English since her controversial and unexpected Nobel Prize in 2004.

At Greed's center is a strapping country policeman, Kurt Janisch (a closeted homosexual); his desperate, aging mistress Gerti, whom he openly loathes; and his second mistress, the 16-year-old Gabi, whom Kurt kills during sex and crudely discards in a local lake. Greed culminates in Gerti's suicide after she signs away her house to Kurt. The plot is merely a foundation for Jelinek's poly-vocal stream-of-consciousness ranting, as she alternates the characters' cliché-laced thoughts with her own scathing indictments.

A former communist and a committed feminist, Jelinek despises Austria's vestigial patriarchy, largely unaffected by two major wars and here embodied in the sadistic, sex-obsessed Kurt (named, perhaps, for recent Austrian president Kurt Josef Waldheim, whose falsified account of his actions in WWII didn't ruin his political career). Nor can Jelinek endure Gerti's slavish desperation for such a monster. In 300-odd pages, Jelinek disfigures the traditional narrative, yielding up a bleak self-portrait of a long-neglected avant-gardist working in a country whose tortured history remains so repressed that not even decades of agitated vitriol can penetrate its core of shame.

An aggressive affront to the arch-bourgeois conventions of the novel, Jelinek's writing is not without precedent. Although she considers herself a provincial novelist working in the tradition of unflinching Austrian writers such as Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, and Robert Musil, Jelinek's resolute anti-Enlightenment views echo the self-excoriating performances of Vienna Actionist Hermann Nitsch, Antonin Artaud's reality-penetrating Theatre of Cruelty (Jelinek also writes plays), and the aurally oppressive performances of contemporary British noise band Whitehouse — artists who've extended their contempt for the world to their chosen mediums. While initial resistance to Jelinek's uncompromising novel is inevitable, the revulsion inspired by Greed should mature in time into an appreciation of Jelinek's extreme tactics, which are justified by her demand that the world be radically different, and better, than it is now.
- H.G. Masters

NONFICTION

Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano


Published:	October 2007
Pages:	320
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Links: Author bio Video interview NY Times feature Independent review L'espresso feature

“Like a writerly Weegee, Saviano monitors a police-band radio for reports of Camorra-perpetrated violence and races to crime scenes on his Vespa, documenting the grisly fate.”

Review
"Camorra is a nonexistent word," writes Roberto Saviano in Gomorrah, a searing exposé of the murderous Neapolitan criminal organization. Members call it the System — "an eloquent term" and "a mechanism rather than a structure." Saviano, born in Naples in 1979 and a regular contributor to popular Italian weekly L'espresso, has witnessed the vicious by-products of this "mechanism" firsthand: he's held jobs at a construction site, a Chinese textile manufacturer, and even at a Camorra wedding. Like a writerly Weegee, Saviano monitors a police-band radio for reports of Camorra-perpetrated violence and races to crime scenes on his Vespa, documenting the grisly fate — and sometimes the final words — of the victims. Macabre? Yes. Captivating? Definitely.

Saviano's book shines with a lonely courageousness that is almost poetic, and while a few stretches of the narrative blur into a laundry list of intrigue and gore, the author ultimately succeeds in delivering a complex picture of corruption. The new generation of Camorristi is an educated business class that sustains above-board industry while driving the black-market economy beneath it — from politics, high fashion, consumer electronics, construction, shipping, and waste disposal to piracy, illicit drugs, and military-grade weapons. Some Camorristi have even earned a sort of celebrity and sex appeal among the citizenry. However, these neo-gangsters are not the models for films like Scarface and Goodfellas — on the contrary, such fictions are what have inspired them.

Saviano deconstructs the System, takes it apart, spreads it on the table, and shows what makes it tick. Obviously, it's a dangerous species of journalism: Gomorrah was a commercial success when first published in Italy in 2006, and accolades were soon joined by death threats. The government (which, as Saviano illustrates, is not immune to the influence of the System) responded to the writer's appeal for protection after literary superstar Umberto Eco went on national television to plead on Saviano's behalf. These days the author lives abroad, accompanied by an armed police escort — plotting a long and fruitful career, we hope.
- Stephen Dougherty

ART

Double Game by Sophie Calle with Paul Auster


Published:	September 2007
Pages:	293
Publisher:	Violette Editions
Links: Guardian profile NY Times review Gallery website Venice Biennale installation

“During her acclaimed international career, Calle has developed a distinctive style that blends diaristic writing and narrative framework with beguiling photographs.”

Review
From the moment its merlot satin ribbon is untied, Sophie Calle's seductive artist's book Double Game draws the viewer into a world with blurred boundaries. During her acclaimed international career, Calle has developed a distinctive style that blends diaristic writing and narrative framework with beguiling photographs. Embracing the details of everyday life, she chronicles the intimate discoveries made from adopting various roles, such as a stripper or a chambermaid, and merging the personal with the voyeuristic.

Calle's willingness to be the central figure in her work, and her propensity to mingle fact and fiction, inspired novelist Paul Auster to create a character, Maria Turner, based on her for his book Leviathan. Following Double Game's silvery endpapers, a facsimile excerpt from Leviathan sets up the interplay between the fictional Maria and her source, as Calle annotates Auster's text in red pen to reveal the varying degrees of truth. Double Game then unfolds in a tripartite fashion — revealing Calle's interpretations of Auster's character embellishments, presenting a mini-retrospective of projects that inspired Auster, and documenting a direct collaboration between the novelist and artist.

Unfurling like a Möbius strip of identity, the fictional artistic pursuits of Maria proved fertile ground for Calle. Vibrant images of monochromatic meals and alphabetic escapades reveal her take on Maria's restrictive rituals, including a day lived under the letter B, as shown in the Big-Time Blond Bimbo image on the book's cover. Double Game culminates with The Gotham Handbook, in which Calle becomes the protagonist in a New York City story shaped by Auster's prescriptions, but ultimately told through Calle's sharp observations and documentary-style photographs.
- Catherine Krudy


More 2007 Recommendations
FICTION
	The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps by Otto Penzler	A thousand-page slab of the most indispensable, hardboiled crime writing from the heyday of pulp magazines, edited with care by mystery-fiction guru Otto Penzler. The nearly 50 stories and two novels are grouped into three categories: crimefighters, villains, and dames. (SD)
NONFICTION
	The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Activate interview	The World Without Us is a work of speculative nonfiction, rooted in the testimony of scientific experts, depicting the ecosystem's response to human absence. Alternately terrifying and reassuring, it is a testament to the power of research to reveal larger truths and our inability to learn from them. (AM)
FICTION
	It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature by Diane Williams	Reading Diane Williams' warped micro-fictions is like peering through your next-door neighbor's window via a high-powered satellite from outer space: the information that comes back is both skewed and impossible to ignore. (EMM)
ART
	Mingering Mike by Dori Hadar	In 2003, a crate-digger discovered a trove of handmade cardboard records by one Mingering Mike — the meticulous impresario of a fictional soul-music empire. The song lyrics and record covers of this outsider artist chronicle his take on America's turbulence from the late '60s through the '70s. This copiously illustrated book delves into the mystery behind the music — or the absence thereof. (PDS) More short-takes »
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FEATURE Year-End Recap		Below are several other notable books published in 2007 that we reviewed in previous issues of Boldtype. FICTION How I Became a Nun by César Aira Flight: A Novel by Sherman Alexie Samedi the Deafness by Jesse Ball The Savage Detectives by Robert Bolaño Crooked Little Vein: A Novel by Warren Ellis Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July Allah Is Not Obliged by Ahmadou Kourouma Zoli by Colum McCann Cion by Zakes Mda Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan After Dark by Haruki Murakami Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje Ovenman by Jeff Parker Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta New Sudden Fiction: Short Stories from America and Beyond Edited by Robert Shapard & James Thomas Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine Petropolis by Anya Ulinich Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida The Assistant by Robert Walser NONFICTION Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat How to Make Friends and Oppress People: Classic Travel Advice for the Gentleman Adventurer by Vic Darkwood Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb by Mike Davis Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy by Stephen Duncombe Twinkie, Deconstructed by Steve Ettlinger The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics by Alexander Frater The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy by Sasha Issenberg Testimony by Gillian Laub Alice Waters and Chez Panisse by Thomas McNamee Mamma Andersson by Ann-sofi Noring Istanbul by Alex Webb and Orhan Pamuk The Royal Nonesuch by Glasgow Phillips Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab by Melissa Plaut The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean by Douglas Wolk I, California by Stacey Grenrock Woods The Artist Who Swallowed the World by Erwin Wurm

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BOOK NEWS A few notable bits of recent book news.
Year-end book lists are in, just in time for the holidays (NY Times)
Aside from the NY Times' literary list, authors and critics pick their faves in the Guardian, the London Times' selection includes picks for foodies and gardeners, and NPR offers an array of original picks.
Hard times for hardbacks (Guardian)
British publisher Picador is planning to release its new books in paperback (at softcover prices), with other publishers expected to follow suit. Au revoir dust-jackets, embossed covers, and thick-papered first editions.
Nobel laureate Günter Grass wants to set record straight (Guardian)
Angered over allegations that he volunteered for the SS, Günter Grass is seeking an injunction against a new biography published by Random House. Germany's acclaimed author admits that he signed up for the Wehrmacht at age 15, but maintains that he was drafted into the SS, against his wishes, two years later.
Chinese author wins Asia's first literary prize (International Herald Tribune)
Backers of the Man Booker prize awarded the first Man Asian prize to Jiang Rong for his novel Wolf Totem, 30 years in the making.
*Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth* clarified by a letter** (NY Times)
Biographer Hermione Lee uncovered a 1904 letter by Edith Wharton to a doctor, shedding light on the literary controversy over whether Lily Bart, heroine of Wharton's famous 1905 novel, dies of an accidental overdose or suicide.
Decline in reading linked to lower grades and lower incomes (Charlotte Observer)
The National Endowment for the Arts found that as Americans read less each year, they perform more poorly in school and on the job. Some critics respond that the definition of reading needs to be expanded to include graphic novels, online databases, blogs, and websites.
Amazon.com launches new portable reading device, the Kindle (Newsweek)
The brainchild of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the Kindle has a unique screen that uses electronic ink, boasts wireless connectivity, and is lighter than many books. Most critics agree it's the best e-book reader yet, but that the Kindle is "downright industrially ugly."
From digital libraries to E Ink (NPR)
Sparked by the release of the Kindle, On the Media devotes an entire segment to the winds of change stirring in the book world.
The late Norman Mailer wins the Bad Sex in Fiction Award (London Times)
Ian McEwan didn't win the Booker Prize for Chesil Beach, nor the more dubious prize for the most unflattering account of lovemaking in a novel. He lost out to Norman Mailer's prize-clinching phrase, "Uncle was now as soft as a coil of excrement," from the rowdy American's final novel, The Castle in the Forest.
National Book Awards go political (Washington Post)
With Denis Johnson's Vietnam-era novel Tree of Smoke and Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA capturing top honors, the National Book Awards celebrated books critical of the US' international affairs.
Foreign classics to receive Arabic translations (London Times)
With the stated aim of bringing more translations to the Arabic world, the Abu Dhabi-based Kalima project plans to translate 100 books a year, including Milton's epic Paradise Lost and Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.
J.K. Rowling named Entertainer of the Year (LA Times)
Harry Potter's creator beat out George Clooney, Matt Damon, and the cast of The Sopranos for her "numbers, not words." The lone author on Entertainment Weekly's annual list, Rowling grossed $15 billion worldwide, thanks to the 400 million Potter books sold in 2007 and the lucrative film franchise.
Dave Eggers wins a TED (PSFK)
The TED award celebrates visionaries in the fields of "Technology, Entertainment, and Design." Winners get one wish to change the world — granted in the form of a check for $100,000.
So many to judge by (VSL)
Penguin has published a collection of 700 of its most eye-popping cover designs. It's currently only available in Canada.
Tough times (NY Times)
Four writers offer snapshots of their local economies.
The history of Helvetica (Spiked Online)
A new documentary highlights the ubiquitous typeface.


CREDITS Managing Editor Toby Warner Deputy Editor H.G. Masters Contributing Editors Mark Mangan Chris Parris-Lamb Paul Laster Anna Balkrishna Chris Gage Doug Levy Editors-at-Large Larry Weissman Sean McDonald Contributors Alexander Cuadros Stephen Dougherty Catherine Krudy Tom Mayer E. McKay McFadden Alexios Moore Tom Roberge Jim Ruland Joshua David Stein Peter D. Stepek Production & Design Anjuli Ayer Jessica Bauer-Greene Morgan Croney Sascha Lewis Andrew Steinmetz Daphne Yang Cover Art Sophie Calle The Hotel, Room 29 (detail), 1981 From the book Double Game Published by Violette Editions Courtesy D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. All Rights Reserved		ABOUT US Boldtype is a monthly, email-based review of books published by Flavorpill Productions. Our mission is to cover five to seven books each month that are worth reading. No money is accepted from any publishers, writers, reviewers, or marketing or PR companies. In addition to this monthly review of books, Flavorpill also publishes ten other email magazines, covering ART, FASHION, NEWS, MUSIC, and cultural events in six cities — NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, CHICAGO, MIAMI, and LONDON. MEDIA PARTNERSHIPS Every month, Boldtype presents one exclusive media partner. Click for more information about advertising opportunities on Boldtype and across all Flavorpill publications. FEEDBACK We welcome any and all feedback — comments, criticism, and even effusive praise. To reach the staff at Boldtype, please email us at editor. SUBMISSIONS If you have a book that you would like us to consider for review, please send an email to books or mail a copy here: Boldtype c/o Flavorpill Productions 594 Broadway, Suite 1212 New York, NY 10012

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