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| Deen, husband share satisfying morsels of life - Daily Oklahoman Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:02 PM PST ©2009 Produced by NewsOK.com. All rights reserved.  →"It Ain't All About the Cookin'" by Paula Deen with Sherry Suib Cohen (Simon & Schuster, $14 paperback). →"My Delicious Life" by Michael Groover and Sherry Suib Cohen with Paula Deen (Simon & Schuster, $25). Paula Deen and husband Michael Groover have written memoirs that tell it like it is. Southern food sensation Deen, dubbed the queen of butter and mayo, has weathered more than a few bumps in the road on her way to success. This is a personal account of how a girl from Albany, Ga., survived a failed marriage, agoraphobia and many other setbacks before she, along with her two sons, Jamie and Bobby, become well-known restaurateurs and owners of The Lady & Sons. Now a TV personality, best-selling cookbook author and savvy businesswoman, Deen has written a memoir that reiterates how she has never lost touch with her humble roots and Southern charm. Groover, whom Deen refers to as "Shaggy Man," met this "blue-eyed bombshell with fabulous legs" when she burst into his backyard searching for her two runaway dogs. Dressed in an apron and baseball cap, Deen quickly captured the heart of the longtime docking pilot from Savannah, Ga. Groover recounts his courtship, marriage and problems as well as rewards in blending their two families. He speaks frankly about the challenges and pleasures of sharing his wife's fame. Sprinkled in each book is a collection of Southern recipes you won't want to miss. Y'all are going to "luv" these books. — Peggy Gandy
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| Good news about book reviews; or, man bites dog - Boston Globe Posted: 12 Jan 2010 04:04 PM PST The New Republic is going against the grain by strengthening its commitment to book reviews. This week it launched The Book, a new online venture under the umbrella of the larger tnr.com. The site's main feature will be a fresh book review each weekday, but it will also feature debates on intellectual topics, links to notable pieces posted elsewhere (a la Arts and Letters Daily and, well, other sites), and video clips featuring literary or philosophical figures from the past. The Book's content will be unique; the reviews will not appear in The New Republic's highly respected "back of the book," edited by Leon Wieseltier. In announcing the new site, Isaac Chotiner, executive editor for The Book, wrote that the move rectified an imbalance: while the magazine could be thought of as half political and half literary, tnr.com has, until now, been dominated by politics. "The time has come to break out of that necessary but constraining box." He wrote, too, that the move was in part a reaction to shrinking books coverage on the part of newspapers and magazines: "It is a time ... for friends of books to push back." Apart from its content, the site is noteworthy because The New Republic's literary editor, Leon Wieseltier, has long been a critic of just about everything Web-related. "The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston," he has said. "Everyone's drunk and ugly and they're going to pass out in a few minutes." There are hints of Web-wariness even in Chotiner's announcement (in which he says he is also speaking for Wieseltier). "We are not slumming here, or surrendering to the carnival of the web," he writes. "Quite the contrary. We are hoping to offer an example of resistance to it ... Here you will find criticism, not blogging; pieces, not posts." TNR has a number of fine political bloggers; why, at this late date, the reflexive equating of blogging with superficiality? In a (yes) blog post, Marty Peretz, the editor in chief, writes that the magazine is "committed to both resuscitating and reinventing a genre." In passing, he dismisses The New York Times Book Review as "predictable and often very slight" and The New York Review of Books as a dinosaur. The books coverage of such publications as The Boston Globe and Washington Post--admittedly not what it used to be--is evidently even not on his radar screen. "The daily book review is certainly dead," he writes, "as is even the book review in the Sunday supplements." Peretz's exaggerations aside, The Book brings good news. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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