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Eater's Digest
For our two home cooks, well read is well fed.
by Justin Bauer and Char Vandermeer
A new sharp-cornered cookbook, bound and illustrated, united by a particular voice or a curatorial vision of a particular kind of cooking and eating, isn't easy to replace with a sheaf of Google-searched recipes or an impulse-buy smart phone app.

Tween Choice Awards
Under the Covers with Justin Bauer: <i>Skippy Dies</i> and <i>The Instructions</i>
by Justin Bauer
The herd mentality, the state-of-nature bullying, the arbitrary cruelties of adults, a body that disappoints and betrays you — the only honest thing anyone can say is that you'll grow out of it, and grow into yourself.

BQ Reviews
Siobhan Fallon's You Know When the Men Are Gone | Jay-Z's Decoded | Mathias Enard's Zone | Steve Martin's An Object of Beauty

Diary of a Mad Man
Ex-murder junkie Rich Hillen swaps his red crayons for <i>Yellow Socks</i>.
by A.D. Amorosi
The release of his debut novel, Yellow Socks: Confessions of a Non-Don Juan, and a collection of poems, stories and ravings called Dangers of a Confessional Mind, mark the dawn of a new Hillen.