Real Clear Books Friday

Rupert Murdoch's Right Hand - Conrad Black, New Criterion
Stephen Hawking, Superhero - Megan Gannon, Huffington Post
Bookstores Had Great Quarter. Wait, What? - Carolyn Kellogg, LAT
Borders Gift Card Holders Get Bupkis - Judith Rosen, Publishers Weekly
Whatever Happened to the Big Bad Wolf? - Pamela Paul, New York Times
Narrow As an Elephant's Coffin - D.G. Myers, A Commonplace Blog
Short Short Stories Win Booker Prize - Molly Driscoll, CS Monitor
Amy Tan Is Replacing Joan Didion - Paul Constant, The Stranger
One Trick-Arrow at a Time - Douglas Wolk, Washington Post
Tolkien's Unfinished Epic - John Garth, The Daily Beast

Interviews and Self-Help

Cormac McCarthy's Beach Body - The Onion
The Spirits of Ireland - Splice Today
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Grave - Mark Judge
The Unknown Kipling - The Daily Beast

Real Clear Books Thursday

Morning Update
Dan Brown Is Like Oprah - Jesse Walker, Reason Online
Fact-Checking Dan Brown's 'Inferno' - Noah Charney, Daily Beast
Nothing Funnier Than Unhappiness - Mark O'Connell, The Millions
Kindle's Window into Our Souls - Noreen Malone, The New Republic
When Fulton Sheen Was in Style - Tracy Mehan, American Spectator
Other Side of the Tiber - Alexandra Johnson, Christian Science Monitor
Qantas to Fly the Literary Skies - Jenny Hendrix, Los Angeles Times
The Book That Disappeared - Andrew Shaffer, Huffington Post
Vampires in High School? Seriously? - Jessa Crispin, Bookslut
The Pearl Stops Here - Julie Bosman, New York Times

Real Clear Books Wednesday

Morning Update
E.J. Dionne's Dumb Argument - Patrick Deneen, American Conservative
Michelle Rhee's Education Deform - Nicholas Lemann, The New Republic
Go to Greece, Have Your Own Odyssey - Alison Morris, Publishers Weekly
George Saunders & the Question of Greatness - Elizabeth Minkel, Millions
Carol Burnett Wins the Mark Twain Prize - Carolyn Kellogg, LA Times
Stacks of Bibles and Graphic Novels - Sara Beck, New York Times
Egghead in the Clouds - Richard Kahlenberg, Washington Monthly
A Heart-Racing History - Hannah Holmes, Wilson Quarterly
J.D. Salinger's Secret Life - Paul Harris, The Guardian
Beware of Book Blurbs - Prachi Gupta, Salon

Real Clear Books Tuesday

Morning Update
Donald Miller, Christian Iconoclast - Joshua DuBois, Daily Beast
Blundering Without the Bible - Lars Walker, American Spectator
George Orwell, Meet the Internet - Robert McCrum, The Guardian
First as Tragedy, Then as Cant - Daniel Richter, Wall Street Journal
The British Empire's Good Intentions - Helen Rittelmeyer, Books & Culture
No E-book for New Stephen King Novel - Jenny Hendrix, Los Angeles Times
When You Finish Your Novel, What Then? - Holly Robinson, Huffington Post
Amazon Fights to Keep Secrets - Andrew Albanese, Publishers Weekly
Taking Over for Kurt Vonnegut - Patricia Cohen, New York Times
Ray Bradbury, Living Forever - Todd VanDerWerff, AV Club

Real Clear Books Monday

Morning Update
My Mother's Fanatical Feminism - Rebecca Walker, Daily Mail
The Werewolves Are Back - Bill Tipper, Christian Science Monitor
Donald Rumsfeld's Great Advice - Dean Obeidallah, The Daily Beast
Scarlett Johansson to Adapt Truman Capote - Ben Child, The Guardian
Roberto Bolano Could Not Attend - Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times
The Rich Will Still Go to College - Daniel Luzer, Washington Monthly
Two Heads, Not Better Than One - Tevi Troy, Weekly Standard
Letting the E-reader Go - Josie Leavitt, Publishers Weekly
Kids Books Are Too Wimpy - Mark Judge, RealClearBooks
Someone Could Get Bored - Kevin McFarland, AV Club

Real Clear Books Saturday

Morning Update
How Psychiatry Went Nuts - Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal
Start Reading Superhero Comics - Chris Clow, Huffington Post
English Without all the BS - Peter Hannaford, Washington Times
Chick Lit Is Dead, Long Live Farm Lit - Emily Matchar, The Atlantic
George Weigel, Modern Cassandra - Paul Baumann, The Nation
Ceasefire in Fiction's Genre Wars? - Stuart Kelly, The Guardian
Getting My Hometown Wrong - Noah Berlatsky, Splice Today
A Post-9/11 Werewolf Novel? - Roxane Gay, The Daily Beast
Bluegrass Is Our Only Hope - Joe Lindsley, Campfire Blog
Hell Is Dan Brown - A.N. Wilson, Financial Times

Real Clear Books Friday

Morning Update
Who's Afraid of Christians? - Rayyan Al-Shawaf, CS Monitor
Plimpton! A Life Really Well-Lived - Robert Elisberg, Huffington Post
Humbert Humbert Has No Friends - Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times
Former Ed Secretary: Don't Go to College! - David DesRosiers, Wash Times
Hollywood's Retroactive Repression - Mark Judge, Acculturated
Poets Make / Small Talk - Michael Robbins, Books & Culture
The Greatness of Chicago - Scott Turow, New York Times
Incredible Hulking Library - Alison Flood, The Guardian
Just Try to Pick Me Up - Jessa Crispin, Bookslut
A Troll's Revenge - Paul Constant, Stranger