From the monthly archives:
It’s Monday, people. What’d ya do over the weekend? I saw The Dark Knight (good, not great, but Heath Ledger was tons of fun), I ran six miles (not all at once), and I made pizza. Yum. Here’s what they’re talking about out there on the internet: Edan has a terrific interview with Joan Silber [...]
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If you’re looking for something to do this afternoon, try typing the name of your favorite author into this Literature Map and watch the cloud of authors form around them. I like to watch the names jockey for position. Not sure how they determine the map, though. Some sort of algorithm, I guess. Whatever it [...]
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Books and authors, which never really caught on with television (although I remain hopeful for “Inside the Writer’s Studio,” or some similar TV show), seem to have a shot on the internet. First came Titlepage, which features four authors in a round table discussion about their books and literary culture in general, and now Slate [...]
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“I went to the restaurant where I always went to the restaurant and I sat down on the stool before the long counter and ordered coffee. It tasted pretty much like coffee, but it wasn’t worth the nickel. Sitting there I smoked a couple of cigarets, read the box scores of the American League games, [...]
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Unless you’ve been living in a colony on the moon for the past few months (like a character in a John Kessel story), you’re probably aware that the new book in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga, Breaking Dawn, is about to come out. In order to guard against spoilers, Meyer has requested that the message boards [...]
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It’s been reported elsewhere, but Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children has been named the greatest book of all friggin time, er Best of the Bookers. When Rushdie read at Vroman’s, someone asked him to comment on winning the Booker for Midnight’s Children. He quoted Kingsley Amis, who, upon winning the award late in his career for [...]
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Local chef and food writer Jeanne Kelley has a small urban farm where she raises a goat and some chickens and has a vegetable garden. She is in this month’s issue of Bon Appetit (I know, because I’m a subscriber). She has several recipes that I’m going to attempt in the next few weeks (including [...]
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I haven’t been doing very well on my summer reading list. If you’ll recall, I posted an ambitious list of titles I was going to tackle this summer. So far, I’ve read one of them. Julie Klam’s Please Excuse My Daughter (which was terrific, and you should listen to her on Blogtalk Radio. It’s an [...]
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I’ve got some longer post ideas percolating, but for now, I’ll just direct your attention to a couple of things of note on the net at the moment: Mark has suggested moving the LA Times Book Review entirely online. In the comments, there are various arguments for or against the move. It doesn’t seem terribly [...]
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