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1. May 17, 2011 01:32 PM

   Tabloid City and the Contours of Emptiness

   Pete Hamill’s new novel explores a city in decline

   By Jennifer Miller

   Tabloid City | by Pete Hamill | Little, Brown and Company | 288 pages, $26.99 In the opening pages of Pete Hamill’s new novel, Tabloid City, the editor-in-chief of a dying tabloid called the New York World looks around his dead-of-night newsroom and thinks, “We live in the capital of emptiness.” This is true not just of Hamill’s fictional World—presented...

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2. December 7, 2011 11:48 AM

   Hell Yes to Hell No

   New book flags ways US targets dissent

   By Justin D. Martin

   Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in 21st-Century America | By Michael Ratner & Margaret Ratner Kunstler | The New Press | 176 pages, $17.95 A number of twentieth-century legal decisions helped establish the US as having one of the freest press systems on earth. In 1925, the US Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protects citizens not only...

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3. August 16, 2012 03:32 PM

   Review: The Year of the Gadfly

   A teenage journalist finds herself in Jennifer Miller’s resonant first novel

   By Matt B. Weir

   The Year of the Gadfly | By Jennifer Miller | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 384 pages, $24.00 “Even Edward R. Murrow sometimes spoke in clichés, which only proves how ubiquitous and insidious they are,” quips Iris Dupont, intrepid teenage reporter, near the beginning of Jennifer Miller’s promising debut novel, The Year of the Gadfly. Iris, a winning and vulnerable teen...

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