Critics of the religious right — and I am one — often differ on the approach to opposing them. Some believe it necessary to keep the debate civil and respectful. Others think the best approach is a two-by-four. Stacey Tallitsch falls in the latter camp. The problem is he puts such a large spike in […]
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I started playing golf as a youngster more than 35 years ago. In the early 1990s, though, I walked off the public course I normally played and didn’t pick up a club for about five years. Why? Neither my temperament nor my personal life could handle taking 4 1/2 to 5 hours or more to […] It’s simply by coincidence that I picked up Running with Scissors on a stroll through the library just days before the uproar over James Frey’s memoir began. A number of people who knew I liked Frey’s work had suggested this one. I’ll still take Frey’s, even if it’s more fictional than represented. (I do feel […] Releasing Tuesday, Lee Eisenberg’s The Number, combines two relatively hot topics — baby boomers and blogs — in different ways. Eisenberg’s target audience is the baby boomers who, as Newsweek and innumerable other media outlets have told us, are hitting their 60s. Eisenberg realizes that boomers are starting to think about retirement and The Number […] Larry Beinhart’s Fog Facts never quite settles on whether it wants to be a Bush-bashing book, a book on the failings of the mainstream media or both. Ultimately, it probably doesn’t matter because there are better efforts out there in each category. Supposedly, the book’s theme is that there are certain facts or significant news […] |
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