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A few items of interest as I get caught up on periodicals and being away from my newsreader for a few days.
The Atlantic is quickly becoming one of my favorite magazines. Just the first several pages of this month’s issue (not the cover story or the features) includes: an excellent column on how the […]
A few quick notes while attending the state AA volleyball tournament:
Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award for nonfiction. It remains in my TBR pile and has in fact moved down in the stack as there’s a couple books since received which I have committments to review. Willaim T. […]
Not suprisingly, after winning this year’s Hugo Award for best novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell won in the same category for this year’s World Fantasy Awards. (Via SF Signal). The book is still sitting on the bedside bookshelf with a bookmark about one quarter of the way in. Slate chimes in with an […]
As indicated, back to the more mundane but equally important realm of the blog after the recent Alito digressions.
E Street Radio is up and running on Sirius. So far, I’m impressed with the nightly full live performances that are being aired. I’ve also heard several nice few rarities and individual live cuts. I don’t […]
A collection of the worst lines ever from SF, fantasy and horror writing. (Via Blog of a Bookslut). Check out a book at the Open Library. (Via Roberson’s Interminable Ramble). Based on a poll of about 4,000 readers, NewScientist Space magazine selected Firefly as the World’s Best Space Sci-Fi Ever. In second was Serenity, the […]
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