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Bob Dylan and the Pulitzer Prizes

The Pulitzer Prizes were announced today and Bob Dylan nabbed one. Not for a particular book for a piece of music. Instead, he was given a special citation “for his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” I’m sure Dylan could really care less but it’s […]

Tim April 7th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: A Reading Life, Music | One comment - (Comments are closed) | |

Overdue marginalia

Due in part to the recent successfully resolved problems with the home desktop, I have been somewhat lackadaisical in noting items elsewhere. Thus, a few of these may be a little old but they remain worthy. I also know there’s some that totally slipped by during a busy couple weeks.

Is SF antithetical to religion? […]

Tim April 6th, 2008 | Tags: | Category: Miscellany/Linkage | One comment - (Comments are closed) | |

More blog thought on book reviewing

Seems that book reviewing “rules” and ideas are showing up in a variety of blog posts recently. Last weekend, Author Jeff VanderMeer, who also occasionally reviews books, weighed in with his thoughts on book reviewing as a whole (and lists some of the posts that prompted his thoughts). He lists eight things he tries to […]

Tim April 1st, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | |
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