Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Moving to mirabile dictu

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After six years at  Frisbee: A Book Journal , I am moving to a new site.   Please visit my new blog,  mirabile dictu , where I will continu...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Seven Days Till Christmas or the Materialistic Nightmare

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There are seven days till the Materialistic Nightmare. I have n't bought a last-minute fixie bike, " Lazy Housekeepers Mop Slipp...
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Saturday, December 15, 2012

The Blog Belongs to Yesterday

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"The blog belongs to yesterday, I wanted to tell him."-- Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson The blog belongs to yesterday.  I  bega...
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Thursday, December 06, 2012

REM's Christmas Griping, Merry Capitalism, and Books to Read on the Holidays

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                          Christmas is about Merry Capitalism.  It has always been about gifts at my house. This year we're not...
Wednesday, December 05, 2012

A. M. Homes's May We Be Forgiven

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A. M. Homes's new novel,  May We Be Forgiven ,  is a horrific satire of the American Dream, laced with grief and a weird, unexpected s...
Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Ellen Moody on Women in Cyberspace & Ron Charles on PW's Person of the Year

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At Jim and Ellen Have a Blog, Two , Ellen has written a thought-provoking piec e on women's discourse on the internet, "Women in...
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Monday, December 03, 2012

The Male Book Count, or You Don't Understand Me

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I must get my "male book count" up, I announced. I don't mean sperm count:  unlike Jennifer Aniston in The Switch , I ...