Imperial Bedrooms
I felt like the book pulsed in my bag, a bright-covered blip that kept demanding I come back and progress a few pages.
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2010
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Morning Coffee
I am willing to link to anything involving deep-sea creatures. New maps of Science Fiction (via GerryCanavan.) Are you currently lost at sea? Perhaps you’d be interested in the SeaKettle.…
The Rumpus Review of Please Give
Many reviews of Nicole Holofcener films open with the standard criticism that her characters are mean–which is the sort of accusation that, if it took place in a Nicole Holofcener…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 7/19-7/25
This week: mutant cowboys at the Roxie, The Botany of Desire, a Litquake cocktail party, roller disco, and more film festival goodness! Monday 7/19: Bounty hunters, vigilante justice, and good…
Kids Love New Things… And Paper is Not New.
Children’s books can help us to understand the brave new world of electronic media. PW on what challenges the future holds for writers, publishers and booksellers alike, but also how…
“Why We Created the Atomic Bomb.”
“Had I known that the fear was not justified, I would not have participated in opening this Pandora’s box […] For my distrust of governments was not limited to Germany.…
Top Secret
“The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #45
CSI: MIAMI: THE SOUNDTRACK ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing CSI: Miami: The Soundtrack.
Harper Perennial Calling All Book Bloggers
So have you checked out The Olive Reader, Harper Perennial’s fantastic lit blog? If not, you missed their recent post calling all book bloggers to review HP books. All you…
Talking About the Book Bike
Over the weekend we told you the story of how Chicago’s Park Department tried to shutdown Gabriel Levinson’s Book Bike, only to have its efforts thwarted (thanks in part to…
In Defense of Shirley Jackson
Salon’s Laura Miller attempts to contextualize the work of Shirley Jackson (her “parton saint of oddballs”) within the American canon. Jackson, most famous for her story “The Lottery” (which you…