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Could you narrow down your reading to a favorite genre and author? Why, or why not?
I can from a historical perspective that may not fully reflect my current reading habits. At some point in 1975, I started keeping a handwritten reading log. With the computer age, the log was transferred into a computer […]
Bob Schwartz, the South Dakota blogger formerly known as South Dakota Moderate and who then moved his blog to Politics and Hypocrisy, has made a new move. It’s a move I congratulate him on as it means he may have joined my camp (to the extent we disgusted and disaffected have a camp).
Here’s what […]
“Write what you know” is an adage that can both help and handicap writers. It clearly seems a source of Mathias B. Freese’s collection of short stories, Down to a Sunless Sea, and may also serve as a handicap.
Freese is a psychotherapist who will tell you that these stories take us “into the minds […]
Bulletin Board
Most Americans have never heard of the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature but The Literary Saloon rounds up quotes from some of his reviews and plenty of reaction. Interestingly, two of his books have been published in English by the University of Nebraska Press.
Evidently trying to be a bit […]
I stopped in the local Best Buy Thursday to pick up a couple CDs and two things caught my attention.
First, I see Best Buy is stocking vinyl LPs. That’s right, the things I grew up listening to. Now perhaps vinyl has made some technological advances over the last 35 years and these are undoubtedly […]
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