The Page 99 Test

"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." --Ford Madox Ford

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Gabriel Cohen's "Neptune Avenue"

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Gabriel Cohen is the author of Red Hook , The Graving Dock , and Neptune Avenue , three crime novels featuring Brooklyn South Homicide dete...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Allegra Huston's "Love Child"

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Allegra Huston was born in London and raised in Ireland, Long Island, and Los Angeles. She has worked with Chatto & Windus publishers i...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Owen Davies' "Grimoires"

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Owen Davies is Professor of Social History at the University of Hertfordshire. His most recent books are The Haunted: A Social History of G...
Sunday, April 26, 2009

Peter Leeson's "The Invisible Hook"

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Peter T. Leeson is the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism in the Department of Economics at George Mason University. He applied...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Jane S. Smith's "The Garden of Invention"

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Jane S. Smith is an independent author and Adjunct Professor of History at Northwestern University. Her books include Patenting the Sun: P...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Antoine Bousquet's "The Scientific Way of Warfare"

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Antoine Bousquet is lecturer in International Relations at Birkbeck College, University of London. He applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to his n...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Adrian Goldsworthy's "How Rome Fell"

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Adrian Goldsworthy is the author of many books about the ancient world including Caesar , The Roman Army at War , and In the Name of Rome ....
Sunday, April 19, 2009

Paul Gootenberg's "Andean Cocaine"

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Paul Gootenberg , a former Rhodes Scholar, is a professor of Latin American History at Stony Brook University in New York. He wrote a numbe...
Friday, April 17, 2009

Nathaniel Frank's "Unfriendly Fire"

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Nathaniel Frank is a senior research fellow at the Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara , and teaches history on th...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Seth Shostak's "Confessions of an Alien Hunter"

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Seth Shostak is Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute, in California. His day job is to search for sentient life beyond Earth and his new...
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