I have two chapters left in The Trial so I can't fully vouch for it, but I would definitely recommend The Quiet American.

Must be the half I haven't read.

Shirer's Rise and Fall is fantastic.

Just finished re-reading Brave New World and also the audiobook for Malcolm Gladwell's Blink.

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists' Shake the Sheets.

Just re-watched it this weekend, and it's sad how relevant it still is. Possibly even more now than in 2006.

There are some great restaurants in Cincinnati that make a tasty vegetarian version of goetta. So there's that.

Price Hill Chili, one of the best things about the west side.

La Rosa's I've learned to live with because it's everywhere, but there is far better pizza in town.

More for the rest of us then.

You should remedy that as soon as possible.

I'm with @avclub-518f6fc78175d18f8c6e1da9e20e597c:disqus on this one. It's a staple of any diner-style restaurant in town, is all over every event, and again, even has it's own festival.

Hope a similar article for best music not reviewed is forthcoming, because that missing review for Nick Cave's Skeleton Tree still sticks in my craw.

Nearly finished with Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, which I really thought was going to sync up nicely with another populist candidate losing badly in a landslide election. Now I wish I'd finished it earlier.

Nope, IPAs are one of the most (if not the most) popular styles of craft beer in America, which has led to a big backlash against them by some.

Rhinegeist Truth is my favorite standard IPA (without getting all crazy into DIPAs, Triple IPAs, or rarer specialty IPAs.

Finished Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, Nick Cave's The Sick Bag Song on audiobook and DeLillo's Running Dog. Also just read Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train, which was okay at best. Too predictable.

As a huge fan of both Homme and Mark Lanegan, I refuse to acknowledge the existence of the PU theme.

Or music. Or books (at least that was touched on briefly with the Orwell mention). The man is incredibly well-rounded when it comes to these topics.

I read TPAA and Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here earlier this year for the reasons as you. Was hoping at this point that they wouldn't ring as true as they do, but sadly that's still not the case.