And Nothing But the Truthiness: The Rise (and Further Rise) of Stephen Colbert By Lisa Rogak
- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
- ISBN-10: 0312616104
- ISBN-13: 978-0312616106
Stephen Colbert is really two people: Colbert the Person and Colbert the Character, and a little like a good police drama, figuring out who you are watching on “The Colbert Report” or on stage can be a bit of a challenge.
Ms. Rogak’s method of introducing Colbert the Person and Colbert the Character is near faultless. Not an easy trick to do when one personality seems to roll into the other as Colbert switches fore and back faster than 2012 Republican presidential front runners.
The dynamics of the book center on two questions:
1) Where does Stephen Colbert the Character end and Stephen Colbert the Person begin, and;
2) Is it Col-bear or Col-bert?
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PhD [alternative] Career Clinic
by Jane Y. Chin, Ph.D.- Paperback: 108 pages
- Publisher: 9Pillars Publishing
- Language: English
- ISBN-13: 978-0-9755072-1-6
- Currently available as a Kindle Book.
- Genres: Nonfiction - Business/Marketing - Career Development
There are a lot of fallacies and myths concerning academics moving from the university setting to corporate senior management. Jane Y. Chin’s PhD [alternative] Career Clinic provides a comprehensive and practical guide as to what the newly minted Masters and PhD graduates should expect in the “real world.” To what is real and what is legend.
What Dr. Chin’s book is not is a guide to writing resumes and cover letter, the nuts and bolts of the laborious job of the job search, or how to perform at a job interview. she is asking the reader to take a deep look at him or herself to determine what they want to do when they grow up, what needs to be done on a personal level as one begin the process, and, my personal favorite, getting to know one’s self.
This is written on an academic level, which is the audience Chin wants to attract. Chin does not attempt to lighten the hard parts of changing careers paths, of seeking a corporate career under the pressures of your advisors and department chair, or the harder questions about one’s intent of going to the “dark side” of a corporate career and possibly being “over qualified.”
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Red Roger: A novel by: Ben Capshaw
- Format: Hard Cover
- Self-published
- 414 pages
- ISBN: 978-0-615041855-1
- Format: Kindle Edition
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004QGYK96
John Knight is a Washington D.C. homicide detective. His long time partner is Alex Stewart. They make a wonderful pair; Knight comfortable in his $99.00 suits and Stewart wanting to be on a cover of an Armani’s catalog. You get the general picture.
Elaine Field is a budding ballet dancer with a lot of potential and just so happens to live across the way from Knight. She was murdered, her throat slashed and her stomach cut open. This is the first murder of many and Knight is the assigned detective. Living in close proximity, Knight has a deeper interest.
From here you add to the list of characters. Richard and Stephanie Ford, wealthy and the owners of the ballet company for whom Elaine danced. Richard’s adult son Eric is a weapons engineer and Stephanie’s step-son. Richard has one very open eye on very young women. Stephanie is also a bit loose in the sex department. The reader is not too sure about Eric. The three together equal a very wealth dysfunctional family.
The supposed murderer, “Red” Roger Medvell, has a history of violence and was recently released from a state mental hospital.
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The Heming Way: How to unleash the booze-inhaling, animal-slaughtering, war-glorifying, hair chested, retro-sexual legend within… Just like Papa!
By: Marty Beckerman
Paperback: 90 pages
Publisher: Infected Press (May 27, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 097006294X
ISBN-13: 978-0970062949
Available through: www.thehemingwaybook.com, Amazon and Barnes and Noble online.
“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. … The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.” Ernest Hemmingway
And thus we enter into the worlds of smokin, drinkin, warrin, huntin and womanizin. The Hemming Way is a tool to reintroduce a form of masculinity that has been lost since Papa’s death in 1961. That is Marty Beckerman’s vision of a post emasculate world that exists today and what it should really look like. Bigger than Tim Allen.
Within the liberal (usage not political) use of Hemmingway quotes, Beckerman takes the reader through the maze of “how to be a real man” from the joys of hunting womanizing and drinking to the true purpose of the book, masculinity itself. This is all done with tongue-in-cheek, bad jokes, worse commentary and a quality of writing of which Ernest might have approve. Then again…
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