Summer Reading List

By at 23 July, 2008, 4:29 pm

I’m always getting asked what I’m going to read this summer, or more to the point what others should be reading: Here’s a list of some books I hope to tackle this summer in hardback and paper and others I am recommending as part of the mix.All are novels unless noted otherwiseUnaccustomed Earth by Jumpha […]

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What I’ve been reading lately

By at 20 May, 2008, 3:14 pm

It’s one of those questions I’m asked a lot and one I ask others, so here goes. Most recently I’ve read: Blood Sucking Fiends by Christopher Moore. Read this on the plane rides to and back from New Orleans. Vampire and slacker lover in San Francisco. Entertaining enough but started out better than it finished. […]

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What I’ve been reading lately

By at 20 May, 2008, 3:14 pm

It’s one of those questions I’m asked a lot and one I ask others, so here goes. Most recently I’ve read: Blood Sucking Fiends by Christopher Moore. Read this on the plane rides to and back from New Orleans. Vampire and slacker lover in San Francisco. Entertaining enough but started out better than it finished. […]

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I’ve been neglecting my blog

By at 8 May, 2008, 9:55 am

I know, I know, I’ve been on deadline on a bunch of things, and the items I want to post keep adding up: So Let me share some quicklyMark Sarvas read at Village Books Tuesday night from his novel “Harry, Revised” to an appreciative crowd, and I got to meet his bride, Mrs TEV (The […]

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I’ve been neglecting my blog

By at 8 May, 2008, 9:55 am

I know, I know, I’ve been on deadline on a bunch of things, and the items I want to post keep adding up: So Let me share some quicklyMark Sarvas read at Village Books Tuesday night from his novel “Harry, Revised” to an appreciative crowd, and I got to meet his bride, Mrs TEV (The […]

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Fact vs Fiction

By at 21 March, 2008, 2:26 pm

There’s a post by Bob Harris on Paper Cuts, the New York Times’ Blog about books, about fact vs fiction, a topic that’s gained currency in light of all the recent faked memoris. Harris  turns to author Kathryn Harrison to discuss a similar set of facts that appears in both a work of her fiction […]

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Good & Bad, Real & Fake, Cain & Abel, Jacob & Esau

By at 4 March, 2008, 2:31 pm

Lot to discuss: First the Good: Richard Price‘s new novel, “Lush Life” got a rave review From Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times. How’d you like to wake uo to this line: “No one writes better dialogue than Richard Price — not Elmore Leonard, not David Mamet, not even David Chase. Or how about […]

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Philip Roth from conversation to Fiction in EXIT GHOST

By at 26 February, 2008, 3:14 pm

    As I mentioned in my current column, I have been trying to catch up on the stack of last year’s books that I should have and wanted to read but just never got around to.     As past of that syllabus, I recently embarked on Philip Roth’s Exit Ghost.     I was reading along, […]

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