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BOOKS
HUFFINGTON
07.15.12
The Violinist’s
Thumb And Other
Lost Tales of Love,
War and Genius
As Written By Our
Genetic Code
by Sam Kean
You’re early for dinner,
so you leaf through The
Violinist’s Thumb... by
Sam Kean (Little, Brown)
over a cocktail. You learn
that there’s enough DNA
in your body to stretch
to the moon, you now
understand how talent is
inherited, and you read
something about cat feces
that you simply can’t help
but repeat at the table.
Supergods by
Grant Morrison
After dinner, you get into bed
and drift off to sleep with
the new paperback edition
of Supergods by Grant
Morrison (Spiegel & Grau), a
look at the real-life history of
fictional superheroes by one
of the comic book world’s
greatest living writers. The
hugely readable tale weaves
Morrison’s own life story
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