Year: 2004

Since literature may become a spectator sport it might be worth taking a moment to scan the playing field. Many of the fans who’ve wandered into a booksto...

In my post about the Maltese I referred to Harlan “Cobain.” A reader asked if he was related to Kurt Cobain; he’s not. His name is Harlan Cobe...

Kim’s review does hit on something troublesome….this unpleasant event where, for all intents and purposes, the educated reader has her intelligence ...

Figured I would make the first review one of the more interesting works I’ve read in the last year. It is Victory in the East: A Military History of the F...

Kim’s review of the Time Traveler’s Wife struck a chord with me. Kim wonders if she’s out of touch with contemporary culture because she disli...

Thanks to the efforts of Alexis Welby of Simon & Shuster, Kevin Wignall’s For The Dogs is winging this way for review. I’m excited at the prosp...