tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1251100 2009-11-17T05:24:30-08:00 Ellen Heltzel and Margo Hammond: Two veteran book critics who believe books are better than Botox. TypePad TheBookBabeshttp://feedburner.google.com tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d015253ef012875ac8986970c 2009-11-17T05:24:30-08:00 2009-11-17T05:24:30-08:00

Check out the Book Babes November radio show (details below) Wednesday, November 18, at 11:30 a.m. on WMNF-FM 88.5 in Tampa or streaming live on the Internet at wmnf.org. Missed it? All shows are arched at wmnf.org. Just click on...

Ellen Heltzel tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d015253ef0120a69783d1970b 2009-11-13T13:58:40-08:00 2009-11-13T13:58:41-08:00

The Book Babes November Radio Show highlights: Book News The Book Babes discuss Publisher's Weekly's controversial all-male 10 best books of 2009 and invite listeners to join them in compiling their own all-female list of great 2009 books. (Feel free...

Ellen Heltzel tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d015253ef0120a69252f3970b 2009-11-12T18:09:17-08:00 2009-11-12T18:09:17-08:00

The blogosphere is rife with indignation over Publisher's Weekly's 2009 best book picks. Why? Because the authors of its top ten, apparently picked by staffers who prefer to remain anonymous, are male -- right down to the last man. Women...

Ellen Heltzel tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d015253ef0120a6b1ab2b970c 2009-11-06T08:23:22-08:00 2009-11-06T08:28:20-08:00

Mary Karr is one hell of a writer. As a person, however, she's looking heavenward. This fact is nowhere in evidence in today's review of her latest memoir, "Lit," by ace reviewer Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times. It...

Ellen Heltzel tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d015253ef0120a622a31c970b 2009-10-26T20:09:00-07:00 2009-10-26T20:09:00-07:00

The Book Babes have spent a lot of time thinking and writing about women's lives. One of the premises behind our book, "Between the Covers," is that we women have similar needs and ambitions as men but a different life...

Ellen Heltzel tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d015253ef0120a66208da970c 2009-10-20T19:15:27-07:00 2009-10-20T19:15:27-07:00

The October Book Babes radio programs airs Wednesday, October 21 at 11:30 a.m. on WMNF-FM 88.5 in the Tampa Bay area. You can also catch the program at the same time steaming on the Internet at wmnf.org. Here are the...

Ellen Heltzel tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d015253ef0120a5cb6842970b 2009-10-07T14:24:28-07:00 2009-10-07T14:24:28-07:00

This has been a funny season for readers who are foodies on the side, or foodies who are readers on the side. First came "Julie and Julia," the bombshell movie, which I have yet to see in spite of the...

Ellen Heltzel tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d015253ef0120a5708f42970b 2009-09-15T07:33:34-07:00 2009-09-15T07:33:34-07:00

From Victoria, queen of Britannia, to Mildred, queen of the ring, from a master in fashion to a master in flour, the Book Babes feature four books about women on top in their September radio show. The show airs Wednesday,...

Ellen Heltzel tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d015253ef0120a542a0d0970b 2009-09-02T19:00:34-07:00 2009-09-02T19:00:34-07:00

Romantic love is one of the enduring themes in literature, as old as Gilgamesh and the Bible. Storytellers have celebrated lovers and lamented their fates for millennia. Today on KATU-TV's "AM NW" I mentioned some of the best contemporary books...

Ellen Heltzel tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d015253ef0120a5003619970b 2009-08-17T23:26:29-07:00 2009-08-17T23:28:08-07:00

The Book Babes August radio show airs this Wednesday at 11:30. Tune to WMNF-FM 88.5 in Tampa, if you're on Florida's West Coast, or click on www.wmnf.org, to listen to it streaming on the Internet). Here are the highlights: Ellen...

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