Arizona Daily Star: “President Bush’s re-election campaign insisted on knowing the race of an Arizona Daily Star journalist assigned to photograph Vice President Dick Cheney….
In response to a request from Edith Wharton to produce a poem for her 1916 anthology, The Book of the Homeless, WB Yeats took the…
The Rake has the scoop on the DFW essay in this month’s Gourmet. Apprently, it deals substantially with animal rights. And Rake says it kicketh…
So Uncle Tony’s seen that pipsqueak’s latest column. Tony figures he can cut the column in half. So here’s the column without the bullshit: Life….
Since Fahrenheit 9/11 came out—and even before—critics and fans alike have wondered whether it’s simply preaching to the converted. But it isn’t just the left…
NPR reports that Boston business is sagging because of the DNC. Revenue has dipped dramatically. Even The International, a restaurant in the financial district, hung…
CAAF darting through, in her orange muumuu and some superhero underoos. Lately I’ve been reading and relishing The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand….
From the abstract of the article “Oscillations of heart rate and respiration synchronize during poetry recitation” in American Journal of Physiology—Heart and Circulatory Physiology: The…
Abebooks.com has released the results of a Student Survey of 2,000 students aged 16 to 30 in which females said they’d be more likely to…
In choosing to tell a police procedural from an attitudinal sock monkey‘s POV, Penn Jillette makes novel’s promise disappear: On some level, the story has…
Japanese novelist Novala Takemoto writes “Lolita” novels. Lolita in Japan — like Lolita here — has taken on a different meaning than the traditional Nabokovian…
Hey kids! It’s your pal the Rake here to disrupt this delightful huggermugger with yet another Cormac McCarthy-themed post. (Thank me later.) In my experience,…
You’re not paranoid, they really are coming to get you. Well, not really, they’re more out to usurp all political and financial power and rule…
The documentary was Some Kind of Monster and the audience reaction was alternations between nonplussed silence and nervous titters of disbelief. There were two truly…
Hey, Hemon, you think you’re hot shit, sweetheart? First off, there’s one thing you should know about Tony Clifton. Dale Peck kisses my ring. Not…
I’ve just returned, without reluctance, from a funeral in Atlanta, to find an email from Ed asking if I would mind posting a thing or…
Show yourselves, guest compadres! Here at Casa BondGirl we are under attack from little brown birds (small but there a lot of them, see) with…
That’s right, muthaz! Now that Mabuse is gone, the real fucking party can begin. I want to coat babies in barbeque sauce and throw them…
The deal is this: Nearly all of our time is accounted for; thus, updates will be scanter than a pair of transparent panties. If anyone…
Sarah‘s unleashed a new edition of Plots With Guns. Among some of the highlights: an excerpt from Ian Rankin’s next Rebus novel, Sarah’s interview with…
Lately, I’ve been reading Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride — as usual, a gloriously devious book. This column suggests that Zenia is a grotesque version…
Okay, folks, since these book lists are a lot of fun, here’s a new list I actually have a chance on. (My score here is…
The Rake points to an excerpt of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. Memo to world: Buy this book immediately. You won’t be sorry. It’s intricate, emotional,…
What the loss of Jerry Goldsmith means (in depth) The State of Books & the NYTBR, Part 2 Continued updates on pertinent backlogged posts for…
I’ve started reading Kevin Starr’s Coast of Dreams (due for publication in September 2004 by Knopf), the latest volume in Starr’s underrated California Dream series….