Honestly, I was gonna leave it alone. I even deleted the draft I started earlier last week. But then the local fair, trying to recover from an embezzlement scandal, indicated one step toward restoring its credibility is the music acts it announced for this year, a roster that includes Alice Cooper and Peter Frampton. Listen, […]
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It’s what every reader longs for but experiences all too rarely. Just a few pages into a book and you realize there’s something special in your hands. German author Hans Fallada’s Every Man Dies Alone is just such a book. And what makes it perhaps that much more remarkable is that it is now being […] Bulletin Board It’s Jazz Appreciation Month. Go forth and celebrate. Bookish Linkage Toni Morrison’s A Mercy won the annual Tournament of Books, besting City of Refuge in the finals. The six finalists for the Independent Foreign Fiction prize have been announced. The books, none of which I’ve had a chance to read, are from Columbia, […] I do a lot of book reviews, both here and for Blogcritics. I get some of the books free, whether from the publisher, author or a publicist. Evidently, that now may subject me to regulation by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC is considering changes in federal regulations regarding the “use of endorsements and testimonials […] America’s tendency to rush books into print after newsworthy, or even not so newsworthy, events has generally soured me on books appearing shortly after the events with which they deal. After all, can the paperback you see in the a supermarket checkout line a month or so after the latest trial of the century really […] |
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