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Book Review: Moondust (2005)

For people who grew up during the Apollo program and manned missions to the Moon, Andrew Smith’s Moondust has an intriguing premise. He sets out to find and interview the men who walked on the Moon and see how it affected their lives. Unfortunately, it ultimately yields the conclusion that many people now seem to […]

Book review: Looking for Bigfoot (2005)

As its subtitle indicates, this blog stemmed from feeling wholly alien in an area that is a bulwark of conservative ideology. Imagine my surprise to find that one of the most radical political novels I’ve read in years comes from Sheldon, Iowa, some 70 miles away.

Mike Palecek’s Looking for Bigfoot is a no-holds-barred onslaught […]

Book Review: Thou Shalt Not Kill Unless Otherwise Instructed (2005)

A confession first. I am not a poetry fan. I don’t know why, but it is something I never got into. My preferred “form” of the art is songwriting. Most of my favorite songwriters are generally called “topical,” meaning they’re writing about what they see is happening in the world.

That’s probably part of the […]

Book blurbs

Now that I’ve jettisoned some legal/political ballast, back to a bit more routine. Here’s some short takes on some recently consumed reading material. Longer reviews may (or may not) appear at Blogcritics.

The Art of Getting Bent, Mark Sahm — Mark is a fellow Blogcritic who was kind enough to send me a copy of […]

Kurt Vonnegut follow-up

My Blogcritics review of Kurt Vonnegut’s A Man Without a Country has prompted a fairly heated and at times nasty comment war at that site. Of course, it seems many of the comments have nothing to do with the book itself. Perhaps it is a reflection of some of the points Vonnegut was making with […]