Posted in Book Reviews, tagged Donald Ray Pollock on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s sort of hard to know where to start with Donald Ray Pollock’s upcoming collection Knockemstiff, which Doubleday’s releasing in just more than a month. The first and easiest point of awesomeness is: that name? Knockemstiff? Real town. In Ohio. No shit.
For sure the thing that’s going to just take everyone’s head off regarding this [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged Bang Crunch, Jack Pendarvis, Matthew Klam, Neil Smith on February 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Neil Smith’s Bang Crunch came out in hardcover in Canada a year ago, and it’s just now being released in the states in paperback by Vintage, and it’s a very, very solid debut collection of short stories. Full disclosure dictates that I have to admit a sort of anxiety about debut collections by young white dudes, just [...]
Posted in Music Reviews, tagged Biscuits For Breakfast, Distance and Time, Fink on February 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So in the summer of, I think, 2006, there were like five bloggers who found and posted this amazing and sexy track called “Pretty Little Thing,,” by a guy named Fink. For those of us who found and listened to the track, summer of 2006 was all the better for it (and, had I been [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged Boeing Versus Airbus, John Newhouse on February 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Boeing Versus Airbus messed with my head for maybe the first fifty or sixty pages. Maybe even the first hundred, if I really get into it. It came out in hardcover last year, and so there were these great blurbs from earlier reviews on the paperback copy from Vintage: “One of the great business stories of [...]
