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Sunday morning marginalia

PP has an excellent post about the Capitol mural South Dakota hides. Just after posting about Emma Larkin’s Finding George Orwell in Burma, I learned she has been back to the country and is blogging about the state of affairs there at her publisher’s website. (Via.) There’s an excellent piece in The Guardian on […]

Seems like a $50 million salary package draws attention

Each year, The Hockey News publishes what it calls it’s “Bucks and Pucks” issue. This year’s edition hits newsstands next week with former Stampede player Thomas Vanek on the cover. According to The Hockey News, the cover story “examin[es] what life is like for Buffalo Sabres left-winger Thomas Vanek after his new contract makes him […]

Book Briefs 5

I’ve been a relative slackard over the last several months when it comes to actually doing reviews. It seems the only ones I get done are for books sent me for review purposes. As a result, I’m going to try to at least make these book briefs a semi-regular feature.

Clapton: The Autobiography, Eric Clapton […]

Friday marginalia

Maybe I need to read some of Nobel Prize laureate Doris Lessing‘s work as she sounds like my kind of person. Her response to winning the literature prize? “Oh Christ, I couldn’t care less!” Earlier this week I finally got around to watching the 60 Minutes piece on Bruce Springsteen. You need to see […]

Illiterati status confirmed once twice again

The news this week serves as further confirmatino of my illiterati status despite how much I read.

Case in point 1: Doris Lessing wins the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. Nope, never read a thing by her.

Case in point 2: The finalists for the 2007 National Book Awards have been announced. I’ve read none […]