Cute Eats Cute C.B. Murphy (North Star Press)
Shortly after New York governor Eliot Spitzer was caught visiting hookers and forced to resign, Northwestern University professor Laura Kipnis went to dinner with someone who expressed an “everybody does it” attitude about prostitution. The comment gave Kipnis the idea for her new book, which explores the whys and hows of scandal.
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That required many specimens, and the real drama of the book lies in Akeley’s many safaris. Along with various pestilences, he survived a leopard attack by strangling the cat as it tried to gnaw off his arm. Another time he was gruesomely mangled by an enraged bull elephant. His supportive but only so-long-suffering wife, Mickie, in effect left him for a pet monkey. Yet he remained undeterred.
The Universe in Miniature in Miniature Patrick Somerville (Featherproof Books)
