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Labor Bombs, Lobster Life, And Football Recruiting [Books]
Howard Blum’s American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century is ambitious in scope. In discussing the labor strife happening throughout the first couple decades of the 20th Century and examining closely the 1910 … Continue reading
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An American In Paris, Ghost Stories, And Small Town Life [Books]
Despite the hilarity of almost any joke about France, I do enjoy Paris greatly. Which is why I picked up Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik, a staff writer for The New Yorker, who spent five years in the … Continue reading
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2008 Entertainment Favs [Me]
For whatever reason, I feel compelled to continue my one-year-old tradition of recounting my favorites entertainment from the past year. This year I’m limiting myself to five from each category. And remember that the books, movies, and music, are only … Continue reading
Murder Trial, Winning Streaks, Boring Sons, And The Lobster [Books]
We are getting ready to close out 2008. Here are my final few books I read this year. I fell off of last year’s pace of 50 books by reading 36 this year. I got a Sony Digital Reader for … Continue reading
Vietnam, A Justice, And A European Emperor [Books]
I think that I’ve said this before, but, in part because I was born in 1973, the Vietnam drama just never really hit home with me. I know that people feel stridently about it, but I’ve never really understood how … Continue reading
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Small Towns, Dudeness, Truth, And Mortality [Books]
Chuck Klosterman is one of those writers that I always enjoy reading. His books and articles, while not terribly intellectual, are almost always interesting and from an unconventional viewpoint. His most recent book, Downtown Owl, is his first work of … Continue reading
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A Buckley For Obama? [Books]
When I mentioned last week that I had recently read Christopher Buckley’s latest novel Supreme Courtship, Trench noted that C-SPAN had interviewed Buckley on its After Words program. That video is available online. Of even more interest to me is … Continue reading
French Society, Court Satire, And Bird Mystery [Books]
I got the itch to read some Émile Zola over a year ago when reading Martin Gayford’s The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles. In it, Gayford notes what a fan van Gogh was of … Continue reading
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Heredity Risk, Legalese, And Chess Drama [Books]
I really enjoyed Richard Russo’s Pulizter-Prize winning novel Empire Falls several years ago. So when the third bookstore in Maine recommended Russo as a local writer–he lives in Camden, Maine, but grew up and writes about upstate New York–I gave … Continue reading
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Magazine Street, Lost Van Goghs, And Left Tackles [Books]
So Cabo might not have been my favorite, but all of the books I read while there were pretty enjoyable. I’d never heard of Ronald Everett Capps’ Off Magazine Street until it was recommended to me at Faulkner House Book … Continue reading
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