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Newsletter #3

August 5, 2014

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Act One

Act One

by Moss Hart

TRUE

A few years ago, on vacation, I picked up an old copy of Act One, knowing only vaguely that it was a famous theater memoir. Some number of breathless, elated hours later, I picked my head up again. Wo... (Tom)

Cover of Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book

Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book

by Dr. Seuss

MADE-UP

Can there be a Dr. Seuss book that's actually underrated? Though it's overshadowed by the tongue-twister nonsense of Green Eggs and Ham and Fox in Socks and by (Tom)

Cover of Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm & Blues

Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm & Blues

by Joel Selvin

TRUE

Writing in a clipped, hip style any James Ellroy fan will recognize, Selvin unearths the story of the long-neglected Berns, who in his short life, and his even shorter time at the top of pop, wrote "T... (Tom)

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