Human Smoke Roundtable
If you are not reading the fascinating roundtable Ed organized to discuss the new Nicholson Baker book Human Smoke you should be (start here). I am so far behin...
Year: 2008
Selling a book by its cover?
Interesting article in the WSJ about Borders books: In a radical move aimed at jump-starting sales, the nation’s second-largest book retailer is sharply i...
Selling a book by its cover?
Interesting article in the WSJ about Borders books: In a radical move aimed at jump-starting sales, the nation’s second-largest book retailer is sharply i...
SPQR XI: Under Vesuvius by John Maddox Roberts
I just finished John Maddox Roberts’ latest mystery in the SPQR series, SPQR XI: Under Vesuvius. The book continues the excellence of the previous m...
Omphaloskepsis
I seem to be in a sort of extended writers block. I am as obsessed about books as ever and I am still finding time to read remarkably. But I am havi...
How Big Is Your God? by Paul Coutinho, SJ
How Big Is Your God? walks a fine line between new age psychobabble and useful exploration of spirituality. Written by a Jesuit priest who raised in ...