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

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Carrie Vaughn's "Kitty and the Silver Bullet"

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Carrie Vaughn is the author of four novels about a werewolf named Kitty. She applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to the latest installment in the...
Monday, June 30, 2008

Rick Shenkman's "Just How Stupid Are We?"

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Rick Shenkman is the editor and founder of George Mason University's History News Network , and author of the recently released Just Ho...
Saturday, June 28, 2008

Christina Thompson's "Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All"

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Christina Thompson is the editor of Harvard Review . Her essays and articles have appeared in numerous journals, including American Scholar...
Thursday, June 26, 2008

Marek Kohn's "Trust"

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Marek Kohn is a fellow in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Sussex and in the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Et...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Ekaterina Sedia's "The Alchemy of Stone"

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Ekaterina Sedia 's is the author of the critically-acclaimed The Secret History of Moscow . In her new novel, The Alchemy of Stone , ...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Mark Choate's "Emigrant Nation"

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Mark Choate is a history professor at Brigham Young University. He applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to his new book, Emigrant Nation: The Makin...
Monday, June 23, 2008

Barry Siegel's "Claim of Privilege"

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Barry Siegel , a Pulitzer-Prize winning former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times , directs the literary journalism program a...
Saturday, June 21, 2008

Jonathan Santlofer's "The Murder Notebook"

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Jonathan Santlofer is the author of several novels and a highly respected artist whose work has been written about and reviewed in the New ...
Friday, June 20, 2008

Ted Botha's "The Girl with the Crooked Nose"

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Ted Botha 's first book, Apartheid in my Rucksack , was a personal account of discovering Africa as a white African. His book Mongo, Adv...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Walter Nugent's "Habits of Empire"

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Walter Nugent is Tackes Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Notre Dame. He applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to his new book, Ha...
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