Last year I read nearly 150 books, with fiction (74) slightly exceeding nonfiction (67). In the latter category, about one third of the books were biographies or autobiographies. So how did I do in voting for the National Book Critics Circle awards? Once again an 0-fer in the finalists in four main categories: fiction, biography […]
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Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Torturer’s Apprentice (“… the [Bush] administration’s threshold for when an act of torture begins was the point at which the Inquisition stipulated that it must stop.”) 10 Reasons The U.S. Is No Longer The Land Of The Free (“Since 9/11, we have created the very government the framers […] Bob Mercer put it well: “A newswoman like no other.” That was the headline of his blog post today in which I learned Tena Haraldson is leaving her position as the Associated Press bureau chief for the Dakotas and Nebraska. Tena probably is a 35-year veteran of AP. I’m proud to say I’ve known her […] Worthwhile Reading in the Interweb Tubes In the Land of the Non-Reader (“As a non-reader I felt free to happily non-think all day.”) (via) The Remains of an Illegal and Immoral War (“The rate of birth defects in Fallujah is 14 times the rate after our nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World […] |
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