Name: Gordon Hauptfleisch
Dateline: Southern California
Weblog: blogcritics.org/writer/gordon_hauptfleisch
Articles: 276
First Published: Thursday, November 10, 2005
Last Published: Monday, December 1, 2008
Gordon Hauptfleisch, alias Neanderthal Hawthorne, is Blogcritics Books Editor, free lance writer, and book reviewer for the San Diego Union Tribune. He's also an enigmatic visionary of unfathomable secrets and many a guise, or at least he plays one in his delusions of grandeur. His mandate also includes weird bugs.
In a previous life he was a leprous horse thief. But for this one you can email him in an arguably better frame of body and mind.Currently listing articles 276-251:
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of December 1, 2008— Cornwell, Jance, Elizabeth Peters, Steve Berry, Beedle the Bard, Tila Tequila, Yes They Did, Rise of the Rich, Talkin' 'Bout Boys - Yea Yea Boys...
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Liner Notables: 24 of Hank Williams' Greatest Hits— "Hank Williams crowded a lot of living into twenty-nine years. Someone said he went into anything like 'killin' rattlesnakes.'"
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of November 24, 2008— Calvin Trillin, Dean Koontz, Clive Cussler, Jim Butcher, Belva Plain, New Benet's, Tovey Cats, Dilgo Khyentse, Alison Goodman, Sheri Reynolds, End Of The World, Ma!
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Off-Kilter Coffee Table Tomes: Okay, Not Exactly Ideal Stocking Stuffers...— Gift ideas from Russian Criminal Tattoo compendiums to oversized Elliott Erwitt dog photo books, and classic Arrow Collar ads to American avocado farmer nods.
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Vinyl Tap: Dave Edmunds - Repeat When Necessary— Betcha can't play just once...
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Pulp Pages: "Brother Murder" by T.T. Flynn — "There’s a cold-blooded touch to murder..."
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of November 17, 2008— Gladwell on how we succeed; Leary on Why We Suck. Also: Lincoln, Huckabee, "Magic" Johnson, Jonas Bros, James Patterson, Higgins Clark, P.D. James, Dickey...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of November 10, 2008— Stephen King, Lincoln, Toni Morrison, Glenn Beck, Artie Lange, Wally Lamb, Paul Simon, Churchill, Evel Knievel, Sinatra, Card, Deaver, Bolaño, Watchmen, Andrew Jackson...
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Book Review: American Lightning - Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum — Would William Burns, Clarence Darrow, and D.W. Griffith "permanently transform the nature of American thought, politics, celebrity, and culture"?
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Vinyl Tap: Sugar - Copper Blue— Bob Mould's sonic assault merges bracing buzz-saw power punk with manic pop thrill.
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of November 3, 2008— Send out for some pillars and Cecil B. DeMille: Ackroyd covers the waterfront, Brands on FDR. Also: Foxworthy, Naipaul, Bond, Brando, Baldacci, Robb, Warrick Dunn...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of October 27, 2008— Rock bios: Lennon and Cobain; Presidential politics: Obama, Kennedy, and Lincoln; History: Irish Americans, Pearl Harbor, Loot!; Fiction: DeMille, Steel, Perry, Truman, Dickey, Butcher...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of October 20, 2008— Robert B. Parker, Jonathan Kellerman, John Updike, Vince Flynn, Iris Johansen, Anita Shreve, Kelley Armstrong, Chagall, Eminem, John Grogan, Ancient Egypt, Star Wars...
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Book Review: The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike
— Readers of The Widows of Eastwick may be more bothered and bewildered than bewitched.
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of October 13, 2008— Abe Lincoln, Emily Post, Descartes, Versailles, The NSA, Intellectual Devotional, Jon and Kate Gosselin, Tony Curtis, George Hamilton, Robert Vaughn, Marcia, Marcia, Marcia...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of October 6, 2008— Anne Rice, Arthur Rimbaud, Marcella Hazan, John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution, the Hunt for Bin Laden...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of September 29, 2008— Buffett, Branson, Prince, Noonan, Mourning, Adams, Orbinski, Holocaust, Dog Talk, Jacksonians, Gravity, Confederacy, Philosophies, 'Philanthrocapitalism'...
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Book Review: Books - A Memoir by Larry McMurtry— The scattershot, sketchbook quality makes Larry McMurtry's memoir haphazard and unstructured, but it's also an entertaining and informative treat for book lovers.
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Vinyl Tap: Crowded House - Temple of Low Men— "Into temptation / Safe in the wide open arms of hell..."
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of September 22, 2008— Summer simmered to an autumnal lull, a calm before the norm: Bill O'Reilly, Maya Angelou, David Letterman, Robert Wagner, Jon Katz, Alec Baldwin...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of September 15, 2008
— Lynne Spears, Howard Blum, Bernard-Henri Levy, West Point, Acedia, True Crime, Nathan Hale, Cheney Vice Presidency, Rwandan Genocide, History of Publishing, Bill Clinton, ‘Funding Fathers’...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of September 8, 2008— Bob Schieffer, Bob Woodward, Thomas Friedman, Reagan's Hollywood Years, The Audacity of Obama, Baron de Steuben, John Tyler, Cheryl Jarvis' The Necklace...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of September 1, 2008— A priest, a president, and a penguin walk into a bookstore... Plus: Truman, Eszterhas, Italianissimo, Resistance, Bill Walsh, Kelly Slater...
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Book Review: Mission To America by Walter Kirn— The remote Aboriginal Risen Apostles “stream on forever through the Etheric Flux, indestructible channels of vitality." But “forever” isn’t like it used to be...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of August 25, 2008— Steve McQueen: "He's Young, He's Sexy, He's Hot, and He's Dead"
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Music Review: Juliana Hatfield - How to Walk Away— "...next time maybe I will know how to walk away with pride and grace and faith in myself knowing how the world works..."
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