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I'm happy to report that the Johns Hopkins University Press will be publishing my book Reading Herodotus: A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History. It should be out in the fall of 2012.

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Current Reading: Design Flaws of the Human Condition

The number of books I have to post reviews for has grown, as I finished Cornelia Biddle's Deception's Daughter and Kyle Mills' Lords of Corruption. The latter I went through so quickly I didn't get around to posting a picture of it here.

I started Paul Schmidtberger's Design Flaws of the Human Condition last night and so far it is a treat. You can get a taste of its clever writing from the title of the first chapter heading:

Chapter One. In Which Ken's "Really Great Day," as Preordained by a Starbucks Employee, Fails to Materialize

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About the blogger: Debra is the mother of two preternaturally attractive girls and the author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece. She writes and blogs from her subterranean lair in North Haven, CT. Read more.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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