Friday, February 25, 2011

Friday Freebie: Volt by Alan Heathcock

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Congratulations to Martha Burzynski , winner of last week's Friday Freebie: West of Here by Jonathan Evison. This week's book giv...
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Soup and Salad: Siobhan Fallon, BordersFail, "Lost" Stories Found, Shortlists, Joyce Carol Oates: Phony Widow?, The Suck Fairy, Great Gatsby: the Game, Ayn Rand: the Movie

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On today's menu: 1.   Siobhan Fallon utterly charmed the pants off me with an account of her book tour for You Know When the Men are...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Words of Wisdom: Burying Your Books

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"I wrote six unpublished novels, and too many unwanted short stories to count, before All About Lulu was published.  I physically du...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Tuesday Tune: "Forever Young" by Youth Group

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With one song and one video ("Forever Young"), the Australian pop band Youth Group takes me back to the summer of 1977.  As if cau...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Friday Freebie: West of Here by Jonathan Evison

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Congratulations to Libby Kessman , winner of last week's Friday Freebie: Quiet Americans by Erika Dreifus. This week's book give...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Reading With My Octopus Hands: The Sequel

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In the days since my lamentation about Reading With My Octopus Hands , I have been trying to tame my book polygamy.  Reading multiple bo...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady: The Nuclear Family Explodes

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In 1958, a 50-foot woman attacked movie theaters in a rampage of "revenge and desire."  The science-fiction camp classic has been ...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Tuesday Tune: "Warm in the Shadows" by Music Go Music

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With "Warm in the Shadows," L.A. troubadours Music Go Music have resurrected the summer of 1977 and Tony Manero.  Forget you'r...
Monday, February 14, 2011

A Lemony Snicket Valentine

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Today's heart holiday post comes to you courtesy of Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler) who wrote the following delightfully silly str...
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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Huckleberry Finn: The Robot Edition

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Are you incensed over the sanitized version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that's due to hit bookstores soon? When someone sa...
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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Soup and Salad: Hemingway in Wyoming, Hammett in Texas, In Franzen's Shadow, eBooks vs. Bookstores, Should We Have an American Writers Museum?

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O n today's menu: 1. From the Department of George Washington Slept Here: A hotel owner in Cody, Wyoming is cleaning up around the pl...
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