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Aside from wishing everyone a happy Hockey Day in Canada, this edition consists entirely of Bookish Linkage: Sure, another book I had to buy: Tranquility, by Hungarian author Attila Bartis, won the first ever Best Translated Book Award. I’m guessing there’s a reason (or several) why Philip K. Dick’s widow couldn’t find a publisher. […] How do you arrange your books on your shelves? Is it by author, by genre, or you just put it where it falls on? Okay, I’m thinking answering this may indicate a degree of anal retentiveness or, perhaps, even OCD. The first case of my main bookshelves contains autographed or collectible works, the […] Although I had just turned 14 when it was released, I still remember the controversy over Jesus Christ Superstar. While it wasn’t the first “rock opera” (Tommy came out about 18 months earlier), this one attracted attention because of what it did, most notably humanizing the events in the last days of Jesus’ life. Like […] Lebanon, particularly Beirut, was torn asunder by the civil war that raged in the country from 1975 to 1990. Both external forces and internal strife contributed to the depredation. It is perhaps no surprise, then, that the war is the backdrop and more to Yalo, the most recent work of Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury to […] Some people tend to see social networking sites like Facebook as a way to market themselves. But I’m guessing most people don’t realize that the content of their Facebook pages basically becomes the property of Facebook to use pretty much how it likes forever. This month, Facebook updated its Terms of Use. Here’s what the […] |
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