Michael Showalter
Grand Central
ISBN 978-0446542104
254 pages
$24.99
Reviewed by Aaron Leitko
For Michael Showalter, the specter of Doug looms large.
The greasy-haired would-be teen rebel -- a recurring character whom Showalter portrayed on the early 1990s sketch-comedy show "The State" -- defiantly thumbed his nose at authority but chafed when ...
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Colin Thubron
Harper
ISBN 978-0061768262
227 pages
$24.99
Reviewed by Dennis Drabelle
Noted travel writer Colin Thubron says he undertook the journey that is the subject of this book "on account of the dead": his mother, father and sister (the latter gone at the age of only 21). Feeling a "need to leave a sign of their passage," he decided to visit Mt. ...
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