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Bulletin Board

The 2013 South Dakota Festival of Books schedule is now available. The Festival is Sept. 20-22 in Deadwood

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Revolution Blues (“What all these authors share is an antiquated focus on high politics and military battles, areas that contemporary historical research has basically forsaken as irrelevant to the […]

A Kafkaesque anniversary

I’m guessing I was in high school when I first heard the word “existential” or “existentialism.” Likewise, I’m guessing that was when I first grasped even a glimmer of what it meant — and I am still far from claiming comprehension. One thing I’ve always found unique about existentialism is fiction’s role in it. Ask […]

A midyear reading report

I’m not brave or smart enough to come up with a list of the best five or ten books for the first half of the year. I can, however, provide a summary of my reading to date and what’s impressed me.

So far, I’ve read 64 books, equally divided between fiction and nonfiction totaling just […]

June missteps and (no) milestones

Can’t say anything I read this month really grabbed me. Of course, that might be the weather distracting me. Plus, it was another one of those months where I would pick up a book, read a couple pages and go look for something else. There were two, though, that I got a ways in before […]