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Joan Baum is a recovering academic from the City University of New York, who spent 25 years teaching literature and writing. She has a long career as a critic and reviewer, covering all areas of cultural history but particularly enjoys books at the nexus of the humanities and the sciences.With an eye on reviewing fiction and nonfiction that has regional resonance for Connecticut or Long Island, Joan considers the timeliness and significance of recently published work: what these books have to say to a broad group of readers today and how they say it in a distinctive or unique manner, taking in...

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One hundred years ago this December, "The Waste Land" was first published. T.S. Eliot’s famous poem has been described as highly influential, irregular, and innovative. Its theme… the spiritual and cultural decay of…well just about everything.

Women and book clubs go together. In the U.S. close to 80% of all participants in book clubs are women.

Internationally bestselling author of the Jack Reacher thrillers, Lee Child calls The Bucharest Dossier “very impressive, and very recommended” and Joan Baum of NPR’s “Baum on Books” says “The Bucharest Dossier is suspenseful enough to make one forget the woes of the world for a while, and muse on the mythic draw of childhood innocence … Continue reading "Author Talk and Book Signing: William Maz “The Bucharest Dossier”"