Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Tuesday Tune: "Huntsville.ca" by Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle

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It's the dead of winter.  We all could use a little sun. Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle deliver the rays. Starting with an unmistakable...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Erika Dreifus' "Quiet Americans" Come to Terms With the Past

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Erika Dreifus’ debut collection of short stories may have the word “quiet” in its title and, because it’s being released by a micro-press ( ...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

"Don't you EVER interrupt me while I'm reading a book!"

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I'm on the road: living the hotel life, working long hours, trying to chip away at Mount To-Be-Read , and missing my wife like peanut b...
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Friday, January 21, 2011

Friday Freebie: "The History of History" by Ida Hattemer-Higgins

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Congratulations to Doni Molony , winner of last week's Friday Freebie, The Great White Bear: A Natural and Unnatural History of the Pola...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

The Life Before His Eyes: Reading Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain"

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There comes a jarring moment in every reader's life when he connects with an equally profound moment in the writer's life. Let...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Soup and Salad: Dzanc Day, The Great American Novel, Book Signings From Hell, Birthday Bestsellers, Breece's Bones, The Afterlife of David Foster Wallace, Anthony Doerr on Loving Books, Hustling Readers

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O n today's menu: 1.   Dzanc Books has announced the date for its second annual nationwide workshop.  Dzanc Day will be held on Satu...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Tuesday Tune: "Changing Your Mind" by Bob Schneider

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Bob Schneider is a wildly unpredictable artist and measuring the quality of his songs (and the delivery thereof) can resemble the outline...
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Monday, January 17, 2011

Niagara roaring through the head of a pin

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From one of the many tomes I had read on the “art of fiction,” I had got the idea that, like Athena, the goddess of wisdom who sprouted ful...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Friday Freebie: "The Great White Bear" by Kieran Mulvaney

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Congratulations to Ken Egan , winner of last week's Friday Freebie, The Wilding by Benjamin Percy. This week's book giveaway rema...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Soup and Salad: 3-D Gatsby, Libraries of the Rich and Famous, The Sherlockians, The Story Prize, Snooki Booki

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O n today's menu: 1.   This just in from the Please-Just-Make-It-Stop Dept.:  What do Yogi Bear and F. Scott Fitzgerald have in common...
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