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Essay in The daily Beast:http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-18/talking-about-losing-your-faith-faith-interrupted-by-eric-lax/#

I wrote seven non-fiction books before my religious memoir "Faith, Interrupted" was published last year, and altogether used the letter “I” for myself perhaps a dozen times. Not so, of course, in this case. You recast yourself as a writer and as a person when you write a memoir. It may not be the point of doing it but it surely is the outcome. Friends of decades tell you they learned things abo... read more »

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Average rating: 3.92 · 754 ratings · 83 reviews · 17 distinct works

	Conversations with Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies, and Moviemaking 4.08 avg rating — 255 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Woody Allen: A Biography 3.66 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle (John MacRae Books) 3.88 avg rating — 86 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Faith, Interrupted: A Spiritual Journey 3.50 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Paul Newman 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	On Being Funny: Woody Allen and Comedy 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1975 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Life & Death on Ten West 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Bogart 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1999	My rating:
	Woody Allen: Eine Biographie 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Linda 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

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Eric Lax liked E.C. McCarthy's review of Catch-22: " Joseph Heller's rollicking satire is a must-read novel about the absurdity of bureaucracy and war. We follow a squadron of pilots, their leaders, chaplains and medics through the nonsensical chaos of World War II. Milk runs and bombing formations,... " Read more of this review »
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