Posted in Book Reviews, tagged Awesome, Jack Pendarvis, MacAdam/Cage on July 7, 2008 | No Comments »
I think I got into Jack Pendarvis sort of randomly—if I remember right, I was in Housing Works, browsing the (illegal, but whatever) advance reading copy shelves, and found his first book and read the first story, “Sex Devil,” and I was as hooked on him as I’d been on anybody in awhile.
If you [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged Willie Nelson, Joe Nick Patoski, Netherland, Joseph O'Neill, John Self on June 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I know Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland came out like a month and a half back—and the review just a bit down, of the recent Willie Nelson bio, is at least a month late, too—but I just didn’t have time. I also, for selfish/stupid/misguided reasons, decided after reading Wood’s review in the New Yorker that I didn’t, [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged Country music, Dana Jennings, Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams, Lyle Lovett, Patsy Cline, Sing Me Back Home, Willie Nelson on June 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dana Jenning’s Sing Me Back Home is a hard book for a lot of reasons. This is, actually, the second or third book recently that I’ve been more than a little conflicted about (see Guterson, David as example number one, and later, in July, see Pendarvis, Jack for the next)(actually, there’s Jorie Graham’s Sea Change [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged Ann Patchett, David Guterson, Literary Fiction, The Other on June 14, 2008 | No Comments »
I hate to admit it, but I’ve been waiting to review David Guterson’s The Other because I wanted to see what others had to say about it first, and now that I’ve been able to read what Bruce Barcott had to say about the book, I’m a little more clear on what I’m willing to [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged A Romance on Three Legs, CD 318, Glenn Gould, Katie Hafner, Steinway Piano, Verne Edquist on June 9, 2008 | No Comments »
As is (probably) the case for a few other people, classical music and chess are two things I respect and admire and largely suck at. I can’t play any classical instrument, I’d lose just about any game of chess I’d sit down to play, but some part of me wants to be better and know [...]
