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Searching For My Books

September 6, 2010

In high school, college and graduate school, the shelves held my books first by binding and then by height. Sense memory guided me to the location of each book. More books came. I attempted organization by genre. But, does a book on Louis Armstrong fall under Music or New Orleans? Hmmm. Back to organizing by [...]

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Rising Tide Conference 5

August 5, 2010

It has indeed been almost five years since The Storm. The fifth annual Rising Tide conference on the recovery and future of New Orleans will take place on Saturday, August 28th at the Howlin Wolf in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mac McClelland, human rights reporter for Mother Jones and bad smartass or is it smart badass, [...]

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HST On Khadafy

July 20, 2010

The release and repatriation to Libya of the PanAm Flight 103 bomber, Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi, put me in mind of several paragraphs of Hunter Thompson’s Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80s which came out in 1989. Thompson would have turned 73 on July 18th. Another birthday, same old shame [...]

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These Books Were Made For Walking

June 28, 2010

What books are you reading this summer? Any good enough to recommend? Books I have to finish and GET. OUT. OF. MY. LIFE. ALREADY. or at least off my bedside table 1. G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday 2. Denis Leary’s Why We Suck 3. Kevin Baker’s Dreamland 4. Best American Short Stories of [...]

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Bloomsday

June 16, 2010

So there D and I are, getting soused beneath this beautiful stained glass dome in Dublin’s Davy Byrne’s Pub. The landlord looks over at us. – Leopold Bloom had a meal here, you know. You missed ReJoyce Dublin 2004 by a few months. – Oh, say we. Download Ulysses for free from Project Gutenberg. Tweet

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Azar Nafisi On “Reading Lolita In Tehran”

June 10, 2010

“People often say, what can we do for Iranians? The point implicit in my book was: Look at what these young Iranians are doing for you. They are reminding you of the best in your own culture, and showing you how through imagination one can connect” from The Times Online Tweet

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Fell Off The Bookmobile

June 8, 2010

For the last month, I haven’t touched a book other than to look up formulae, quotes or recipes. Well, that’s not completely true, I haven’t touched a really good book in the last month, which may explain my current aversion to them. A neighbor loaned me Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol and I figured why [...]

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I Will Always ♥ Books

April 23, 2010

Critical Mass’s Mark Athitakis interviews Andrew Altschul of The Rumpus. This is what’s so frustrating when you talk to people in the mainstream publishing industry. They’re so sure no one loves books anymore–because the corporate accountants are telling them they can’t hit a 15% profit margin. And so they’re bending over backwards to find the magic [...]

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Warren (Zevon) Go Bragh

March 17, 2010

An unwritten law of physics: Every town on this planet worth its salt has an Irish pub. A fellow literate reprobate, Killer (no, really), is in the throes of Crystal Zevon’s I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life & Times Of Warren Zevon.  He reports back with the following anecdotes about where a couple [...]

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Happy Birthday, Wolfgang Mozart!

January 27, 2010

My favorite composer, I have read every book written about him and, by the second year of graduate school, had memorized many of his works, right down to the Köchel number. Today, I listen to Piano Concerto No. 26 in D Major, K. 537 as performed by Wanda Landowska. It is by no means one [...]

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