The Traveler has received a lot of press, largely because the author, John Twelve Hawks (a pseudonym) claims to live “off the grid.” In other words, he does as much as possible to eliminate being tracked by “the Vast Machine,” the worldwide system of computer systems and cameras that track activity in modern society and […]
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I know. It’s July and hot and humid. Maybe that’s why Ken Baker’s They Don’t Play Hockey in Heaven made it out of the TBR stack. As a teenager, Baker was considered an Olympic-caliber ice hockey goalie. Yet while at Colgate, an NCAA Division I hockey program, he seemed to lose his touch. A few […] It takes a bit to get used to James Frey’s memoirs, both typographically and stylistically. None of the paragraphs are indented and quotation marks are not used to delineate speech or conversation. Stylistically, Frey would probably flunk most basic composition classes. Many of his sentences are basically run-on streams of consciousness. But they all add […] Some journalism doesn’t fit the inherent constraints of newspapers or magazines. The scope of the subject is too wide and the work takes more than what these formats tend to demand in immediacy. Perfect Soldiers is an example of this. The book is LA Times national correspondent Terry McDermott’s look at the 9/11 hijackers. Subtitled, […] Strictly by coincidence, the conflict between the state Department of Revenue and various churches over the state’s use tax hit the news as I was reading God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law. Written by Marci Hamilton, a professor at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, the book focuses on a somewhat […] |
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