New Titles Out Next Week

from Shelf-Awareness.com Attainment: New Books Out Next Week Selected new titles appearing next Tuesday, July 1: Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World by David Maraniss (S&S, $26.95, 9781416534075/1416534075) examines a politically eventful yet often...

Carlin Gone

from Reuters via Yahoo News COMEDIAN GEORGE CARLIN DIES AT 71 IN LOS ANGELES 7 minutes ago Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday, a spokesman...