Lee Child’s Jack Reacher Novels

June 4th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Books |

Are awe­some fun. Like salted peanuts or some­thing I keep gulp­ing them down.

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The Rise and Fall of Communism

January 14th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Books |

Archie Brown, emer­i­tus pro­fes­sor at Oxford, has put out a lively and infor­ma­tive book that traces the com­mu­nist move­ment from its intel­lec­tual ori­gins in the Renais­sance through the present day. If you were polit­i­cally aware of the world in the late ‘80s, you’ll remem­ber it as a time of incred­i­ble sweep­ing change around the world. […]

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Sign of the Times

December 18th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Books |

Saw this one at Best Buy tonight. Admit­tedly it’s a lit­tle sur­pris­ing they have a book depart­ment at all, and it was tempt­ing to re-arrange the stock to make it even bet­ter than it was.
Miknd Expanding Ideas

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Under The Dome

December 4th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Books |

I don’t even want to tell you how late I stayed up the last cou­ple of nights fin­ish­ing off this book: I did the last 300 in one mad sprint in the wee hours of last night. This is top-drawer King, but try to get some sleep on work nights.

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Ants On The Melon

November 17th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Books |

After Suzan­nah was kind enough to respond with the name of the poet I was look­ing for, I went over to the library and got out Vir­ginia Hamil­ton Adair’s anthol­ogy. She lived long, and pours it all out into intense lit­tle word paint­ings. She wasn’t afraid to address sub­jects like sex and death head-on, including […]

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Bird Songs in “Oiseaux Exotiques”

October 28th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Books, Music |

Ash­gate pub­lish­ing is releas­ing a series of single-work musi­cal analy­ses, and a 2007 vol­ume showed up at the school library recently. It’s an analy­sis of Olivier Messiaen’s Oiseaux exo­tiques, and it’s full of really well-done and well thought-out musi­cal exam­ples. In par­tic­u­lar I like the attached CD, which gives sample’s of Messiaen’s source material — […]

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Road Dogs

October 23rd, 2009 | 0 Comments | Books |

Seems Elmore Leonard has his mojo back.

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Blood’s A Rover

October 21st, 2009 | 0 Comments | Books |

Alright, this whole “tril­ogy” thing has got to stop. I don’t know who thought of it first, but it seems like every­thing has to be part of one these days. James Ellroy’s Amer­i­can Tabloid was sui generis, mix­ing hard-core crime fic­tion with tabloid sen­sa­tion­al­ism, heav­ily laced with famous names, and pur­port­ing to reveal the deep­est secrets […]

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Poets House

September 28th, 2009 | 8 Comments | Books, Travelogues |

A kind of funny story in which I ask a stu­pid question.

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German Expressionism

September 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Books |

The story of the mak­ing of the movie “Fitz­car­raldo” is par­al­lel to the plot of the film itself: a mad­man is seized by a vision — to haul a steamship over a moun­tain to the river on the other side. Werner Her­zog had the idea, and to bring it to life on film he couldn’t use mod­els, spe­cial effects, easy loca­tions. It had to be done with a real ship, over a real moun­tain, in a real South Amer­i­can jungle.

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A Most Wanted Man

January 13th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Books |

In “A Most Wanted Man” the action, such as it is, is almost an after­thought. What’s really going on is the intra– and inter-agency squab­bles, the polit­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tions of dis­tant gov­ern­ments, the his­to­ries — to the extent one can really be sure — of the char­ac­ters. All of that goes into the flesh­ing out of the scheme; its denoue­ment is sim­ply where you are shocked to find out what went wrong.

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David Rakoff

January 9th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Books |

Is hilar­i­ous.

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