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Are you in or are you out? (Books - Exiles in the Garden by Ward Just)
on Nov 1, 2009 in Book Reviews I had yet to read a book by Ward Just before picking up his latest, Exiles in the Garden. It is set in Washington D. C. and concerns Alec Malone, a senator's son who rejects a life in politics in favor of one as a photographer. It also concerns the...
The blurb...
on Oct 29, 2009 in books books books silly memes Suggested by Jennysbooks: Something I’ve been thinking about lately: “What words/phrases in a blurb make a book irresistible? What words/phrases will make you put the book back down immediately?”I don't think there is a word or phrase in a blur...
Ex-cop, ex-Marxist, gourmet noir (Books - Tattoo by Manuel Vazquez Montalban)
on Oct 26, 2009 in Book Reviews I received a review copy of the re-issue of of Manuel Vazquez Montalban's Tattoo last week. Serpent's Tail press has reissued several of his Pepe Carvalho mysteries in attractive paperback editions with retro covers. The time is the mid 1970's as S...
Novelties I
on Oct 24, 2009 in novelties I'm going to institute an occasional series - Novelties, I think I'll call it. About once a month I'm going to list a new thing (or two) I've: eaten, drunk, watched, listened to, visited on the web, and learned lately - since life should be full of...
Lunching with Chekhov...
on Oct 22, 2009 in silly memes If you could ask your favorite author (alive or dead) one question … who would you ask, and what would the question be?I would ask Anton Chekhov to tell me as much as he could about what it was like to collaborate with Stanislavski and all the Mosc...
You must remember this...
on Oct 20, 2009 in Neuroscience Nicholas Wade reports in today's Science Times on the work of Dr. Gero Miesenböck's lab. Its carnival-barker headline cries: Researchers Create Artificial Memories in the Brain of a Fruitfly. If one reads the article, its claims are a little more...