From the monthly archives:
I’m reading Cory Doctorow’s newest novel Makers right now, and one of the interesting things about the book is that it uses the verbs blog and tweet quite casually. In other words, the novel takes place in a world where those words are perfectly normal and require no special elaboration. Makers is a speculative novel, [...]
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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, a day we all gather to celebrate the core American values that Sarah Palin is always talking about: football, turkey and napping in the afternoon. I will be preparing a Maple Pecan Pie (with bourbon!) from the most ambitious cookbook I own, the difficult but rewarding Tartine. It should be fun (eating [...]
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It’s Monday, and I’m drinking coffee in the afternoon. A lot is happening on the internet, and you need to know about all of it. Here are a few of the choicest items: If you aren’t already, you simply must — must! — visit The Diary of Suri Cruise: “Don’t tell me to button up [...]
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Yesterday, Oprah Winfrey confirmed reports that she will be canceling her television program in 2011. This will leave a void in the lives of millions who watch Oprah fawn over celebrities and admonish less-than-truthful memoirists on a daily basis. That stretch, that yawning stretch between four and five pm, what will come of it? How [...]
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On The Morning News today, V.L. Hartmann has a piece about Joan Didion’s resonance with a new generation of writers, many of them women: For some of us, mimicking Joan Didion has become the height of literary ambition, and not just her sentences. “Goodbye to All That” is a jumping-off point, California will fall short [...]
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Today is the 115 birthday of Vroman’s Bookstore. The store was founded by A.C. Vroman on November 14, 1894. While we’ve moved locations once, we have been continuously operated and independently owned ever since. I don’t think I have to tell anyone what an accomplishment that is. It’s a testament to the incredible community here [...]
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I’m not sure why but I’m a little bit down on the typical static blog at the moment (And, no, the irony of writing that on just such a blog isn’t lost on me). Every morning I open my Google Reader and see upwards of 500 unread posts, and I die a little bit. It’s [...]
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The internet is all about book jackets today, and why shouldn’t it be. It’s November now, and the weather is turning cool. Books need their jackets, and so do you. Of course, it’s low-80s outside in Pasadena, so…On to the links! The Second Pass links to an upcoming show at the UCB Theater in New [...]
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No, that’s not the name of a chapter from a Michael Pollan book, though it could be. In this short video, we again visit with Sherri Gallentine, as well as drop in on my wife Edan as she prepares to cook dinner. [Note: the theory about animals that I put forth during the horse section [...]
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