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

Friday, October 30, 2015

Craig Packer's "Lions in the Balance"

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Craig Packer is professor of ecology, evolution, and behavior and director of the Lion Research Center at the University of Minnesota. ...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Keith Heyer Meldahl's "Surf, Sand, and Stone"

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Keith Heyer Meldahl is Professor of Geology and Oceanography at Mira Costa College and the author of Hard Road West and Rough-Hewn Land . ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Marc Van De Mieroop's "Philosophy before the Greeks"

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Marc Van De Mieroop is professor of history at Columbia University. His books include The Ancient Mesopotamian City , King Hammurabi of Bab...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Robert DuPlessis's "The Material Atlantic"

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Robert S. DuPlessis is Isaac H. Clothier Professor of History and International Relations Emeritus at the Department of History, Swarthmo...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Jamie Blaine's "Midnight Jesus"

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Jamie Blaine is a licensed psychotherapist and crisis interventionist who has worked in mental hospitals, megachurches, rehabs, radio stati...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Gil Troy's "The Age of Clinton"

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Gil Troy has been a professor at McGill University since 1990. Maclean’s Magazine has repeatedly identified him as one of McGill’s “Popul...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Russell B. Goodman's "American Philosophy Before Pragmatism"

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Russell Goodman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to his book, Am...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Ruth Bernard Yeazell's "Picture Titles"

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Ruth Bernard Yeazell is the Chace Family Professor of English and director of the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University. Her books inclu...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Lowell Edmunds's "Stealing Helen"

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Lowell Edmunds is professor emeritus of classics at Rutgers University. He is the author of Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analo...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Gavin Weightman's "Eureka: How Invention Happens"

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Gavin Weightman is a journalist, historian, and former documentary filmmaker. He has published more than twenty books, including The Frozen...
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