http://www.philly.com/r?19=960&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F Inquirer book news and reviews en-us Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:33:51 GMT 2013-06-16T12:33:51Z en-us http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=211558961&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130616_Bloomsday_and_the_Gloves_of_Love.html Stately, plump, a 1922 first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses sits in state at the Rosenbach Museum and Library. And right across from it, 310 yellow rubber gloves dangle from the ceiling in a concentric spiral, bearing, in black Sharpie, the entire text of Ulysses, starting with Stately, plump on Glove 1 and, right in the center, finishing with the word Yes on the ring finger of Glove 310. Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:33:51 GMT c9b0e4d5288e246714ecfb70bc36ae57 2013-06-16T12:33:51Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=211487121&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130616_Thinking__feeling_in_poems_and_prose.html Gerald Stern is one of those writers whose style insinuates itself into your consciousness like a catchy tune, so that you find your thoughts echoing its rhythms, bopping from one to another, back and forth, like thought and language doing a jitterbug. Here he is, in Stealing History, telling about "a ghostly experience" he once had: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 05:36:05 GMT c1cca437cfdcd8a57551ed4acdc9c646 2013-06-16T05:36:05Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=211487111&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130616_Twisted_tale_of_murder_and_power.html As China grows steadily more powerful and influential, its internal politics, replete with intrigues of Orwellian proportions and complexity, are becoming increasingly prominent on the world stage. Sun, 16 Jun 2013 05:35:44 GMT 4c0d608b26472ca481136cab18d1b286 2013-06-16T05:35:44Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=211490091&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130616_schaffer_edit_7Days__Regional_arts_and_entertainment__by_Michael_Harrington.html Sunday Band on the run The 1980 documentary Paul McCartney and Wings: Rockshow follows the former Beatle and his second band on their 1976 tour of America. A newly restored and expanded version of the concert film screens at 1 p.m. at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr. Tickets are $7. Call 610-527-9898. Sun, 16 Jun 2013 05:35:35 GMT ddd8d3cff8beeb610d012f44cd684083 2013-06-16T05:35:35Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=211487961&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130616_Losing_your_say_on_DNA.html In a narrow ruling June 3, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the DNA swabbing of people arrested in connection with serious crimes is legal. Sun, 16 Jun 2013 05:35:14 GMT 239f4db126b2fed618a09c2e423e915c 2013-06-16T05:35:14Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=211487101&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130616_He_just_loved_teaching_golf.html Most golfers who witnessed the glory days of Jack Nicklaus can tell you that the architect of his powerful, fairway-eating swing was Jack Grout. And that alone is enough to secure Grout's place in golfing lore. Sun, 16 Jun 2013 05:34:50 GMT 05b2ef05fb4c2e239fcfc480b4844e95 2013-06-16T05:34:50Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=211636221&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130615_Marc_Maron_s__Attempting_Normal___Better_on_podcast_than_page.html Marc Maron is a stand-up comedian best known for his podcast WTF and for leading the podcast boom. He has a half-hour sitcom on IFC called Maron, four comedy albums, and his own brand of coffee, "the WTF Roast." It's fairly believable that a collectible action figure with soul patch, mustache, and furrowed brow is not far in the future. Sat, 15 Jun 2013 05:32:52 GMT 09e9c49bf5fdd1fd28be6ae5ccd3e48c 2013-06-15T05:32:52Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=210503871&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130609_7Days__Regional_arts_and_entertainment__by_Michael_Harrington.html Sunday Two assignations In Bess Wohl's Barcelona, a funny and intriguing take on sexual politics, an American abroad leaves her bachelorette party for an adventurous tryst with a doleful Spaniard. The show, making its world premiere, goes on at 2 and 7 p.m. Sund Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:13:22 GMT d79659341742cd1a2fe256c41cf5ad86 2013-06-14T21:13:22Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=211303281&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130613_As_if_the_2012_race_was_ever_in_doubt.html Among several persistently wrongheaded beliefs about the 2012 election, none beats the claim, heard even in the campaign's closing weeks, that President Obama faced a desperately bad situation and had a high probability of losing. Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:33:09 GMT 49e3df21e629d4b1603368eae43138c3 2013-06-13T05:33:09Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=210914121&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130611_How_baseball_and_the_nation_emerged_from_WWII.html The 1946 baseball season was a remarkable one. The star players were back after World War II, 11 of the 16 major league teams set attendance records, and Jackie Robinson was playing for the Montreal Royals of the International League as baseball took its first step toward ending segregation of the races in baseball. Tue, 11 Jun 2013 05:32:25 GMT 1d690332c0b3360ee790431bff988561 2013-06-11T05:32:25Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=210504201&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130609_Examining_the_human_experience_through_baseball.html Well, of course it is. Baseball, I mean. A road to God. Of course. Was there a question? Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:44:54 GMT b43bbacc933cb423819e90c05c10b1bf 2013-06-10T14:44:54Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=210504211&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130609_The_most_terrific_twosome_ever.html Once upon a time, though not so very long ago, there was delivered unto us from Mount Olympus two players of baseball. They ran like cheetahs and sent batted balls into the stratosphere and their throws trailed blue flame and very soon it became evident that the case could be made that these two were not just players of baseball but the two very best. Sun, 09 Jun 2013 05:33:08 GMT 433edb381c7d8981ca8191f063d1557f 2013-06-09T05:33:08Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=210503901&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130609__Americanah__a_sprawling_novel_on_poisonous_racism.html Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a MacArthur Fellow and onetime Drexel University student who, as every available blurb says, "splits her time between Nigeria and the United States." Her brave, sprawling novel Americanah tackles the U.S. race complex with a directness and brio no U.S. writer of any color would risk. Sun, 09 Jun 2013 05:32:44 GMT 80f2bb734cd6682ff404921149864c6d 2013-06-09T05:32:44Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=210330151&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130606_Robert_Langdon_has_no_fire_in_him.html Some years ago, I was on a book-reviewing panel when someone in the audience asked what we, the panelists, thought of "The Bridges of Madison County," which was then a fixture on best-seller lists. We hemmed and hawed, tried to talk around the question, until our moderator acknowledged that, most likely, none of us had read the book. Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:18:41 GMT cb3c902b988da74b11323c1835006c6a 2013-06-06T18:18:41Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=209591871&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130602_schaffer_edit_7Days__Regional_arts_and_entertainment__by_Michael_Harrington.html That's Dean In Armen Pandola's show Dino! A Musical Evening With Dean Martin at the Latin Casino, set in 1978, the great entertainer finds himself snowed in at the Cherry Hill nightclub without his band, but proceeds to regale the audience with stories of Sun, 02 Jun 2013 09:42:24 GMT 531e199ee287000590cff99b7797f816 2013-06-02T09:42:24Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=209591811&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130602__Easy__Rawlins_hard_to_write_off.html At the conclusion of his 2007 novel Blonde Faith, Walter Mosley did away with Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins. After 11 volumes featuring the African American World War II veteran and thinking man's detective, through whose eyes the social history of postwar Los Angeles unfolded, Mosley decided he had had enough. Sun, 02 Jun 2013 05:34:19 GMT f8d8df0579290bbf80e7211d63372189 2013-06-02T05:34:19Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=209592071&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130602_The_Whitey_Bulger__opera_.html It was supposed to be the FBI's "dream team," two high-level informants in position to provide chapter and verse about the workings of the Boston underworld. Sun, 02 Jun 2013 05:33:16 GMT 6f765dda34e4669326d65ef710298a2d 2013-06-02T05:33:16Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=209592041&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130602_A_creepy_mystery_based_on_wealth__class.html The Poison Tree and The Dark Rose, Erin Kelly's first two novels, were engrossing thrillers with wonderful plot twists and loose ends that didn't get tied up until the very last page. Sun, 02 Jun 2013 05:33:13 GMT 2cb4fa2463b8ca7fb57c051d0b9fc8a1 2013-06-02T05:33:13Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=209430211&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130530_Edna_O_Brien_s_memoir_of_giddy_self-liberation.html When the Irish writer Edna O'Brien started on her literary career, she didn't just make a fast break out of the gate. She crashed right through it. Thu, 30 May 2013 05:32:47 GMT 1e404f7465c4bb09e71a6dc7ba8a7980 2013-05-30T05:32:47Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=208751641&32=3796&7=195632&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20130526_7Days__Regional_arts_and_entertainment__by_Michael_Harrington.html Sunday Battle of ideas Based on the famed Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's courtroom drama Inherit the Wind presents the legal arguments as a Tennessee teacher challenges a law banning the teaching of evolution. The 1955 classic goes on at 3 p.m. Sunday at Bristol Riverside Theatre, 120 Radcliffe St., Bristol, and continues on a Wednesday-to-Sunday schedule to June 9. Tickets are $35 to $45. Call 215-785-0100. Mon, 27 May 2013 19:27:37 GMT a70da045d540bfbbe1ee47ffdeed34c8 2013-05-27T19:27:37Z