Bookdwarf

I am about to dismantle the computer to pack it away. We are moving bright and early in the am and I won’t have internet at home for at least a week. This doesn’t mean you won’t hear from me at all. It just won’t be until Monday when I get back to work. Wish [...]

So the NYT has been paying attention apparently. Sort of. Sara Boxer’s ‘Critics Notebook’ column talks about blogs reviewing reviews. She doesn’t mention all the other things we do. But that’s okay. Bookdwarf is happy she got mentioned at all (yes, I ran out and got a copy of the paper). We are discussed in [...]

I am not sure if I want to thank Galleycat for showing me this link. Fox has a new comedy debuting in April starring Pamela Anderson, Tom Everett Scott, and Christopher Lloyd. And it takes place in a bookstore! Meet Stacked. Here’s the box of kleenex.

I am afraid that I have to be brief here. I am moving in 3 days and have to get all my work done before then. But it’s almost like the Globe knew I wasn’t going to be able to do the usual long roundup.

As an Easter treat, I am providing a link I stole from Ron who took it from Ed who got it from somewhere else I imagine. Stephanie Perry reviewed a book called Leah’s Way from a small independent press and is now receiving a lot of flack from said press because she didn’t like the [...]

I haven’t said anything about the Schiavo case because, well, I just don’t want to say anything. But my friend Bunkosquad had this link on his blog related to the case. If you’re easily offended, well, suck it up. It’s hilarious. Plus the first comment is worth 5 stars.

Does anyone else find it irritating that Steve Almond reviews his own book in the Weekly Dig? It’s not that he even reviews his work, its more the review itself. It’s so…..ugh, I don’t know. I liked My Life in Heavy Metal. I don’t deny that Almond has talent as a short story writer. It’s [...]

The California Literary Review sent me this link to their review of Camille Paglia’s forthcoming book Break, Blow, Burn. When I first heard about this book, I thought, oh great, another rundown of poems I should have read. Great. But this review and the one in this Sunday’s NYTBR (no link yet) make it seem [...]

I enjoyed Sara Ivy’s interview with Shalom Auslander, author of Beware of God, a collection of short stories. His views on religion are pretty interesting, especially considering his background. Plus he sounds like a fun guy.

I received some books from Soft Skull Press a few weeks ago and was intrigued by one title in particular—White Like Me by Tim Wise. Wise, a prominent white anti-racist, helped in the fight against David Duke years ago and now speaks across the country discussing the meaning of whiteness. This book is part memoir [...]

Teehee,now that I can call him Red, I can’t resist. But you should read Robert ‘Red’ Birnbaum’s latest interview with poet Nick Flynn. His memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City came out to high praise last September. Another book for the TBR pile. Flynn comes across as a genuinely nice and straightforward guy.

I’m laughing. I’m crying. Plus the picture is soooo funny. (link found via Bookslut)

Mr. Bookdwarf and I made one of these badboys in January. Man, did it stink up our small apartment. But I made biscuits and green beans and other delicious food. Good times. It’s too bad that ham-making is a dying art.

I can’t help myself. Spotted in this weeks’s Publisher’s Weekly: Doubleday’s winningest title, The Da Vinci Code, marking two years on PW‘s charts, has gone back for an 82nd printing, making for record-breaking 10 million copies. Worldwide, Da Vinci has 29 million copies in print, in 44 languages, and the audio versions have sold more [...]

There’s going to be light posting for the next 2 weeks as Mr. Bookdwarf and I prepare to move. We are moving to a great new apartment located approximately 1 block from our current place, which sounds like an east move, but in fact, is almost more frustrating since we have to go through the [...]

I know she has a penchant for using the word ‘limn’, but she’s used it in her last 2 reviews, for Saturday and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. And have you noticed the plethora of reviews of Saturday? I shouldn’t be surprised I suppose. But check here for a list of links to reviews.

I liked this article about the new Editor in Chief of the Oxford American Dictionary. Except for the part when the author of the article seems to find her so bizarre for wearing “a casual outfit accented by bright, pink-framed glasses and a pair of beat-up black-and-white Converse sneakers”. She also sits on an exercise [...]

I first heard about Virginia’s Festival of the Book from Mr. Bookdwarf’s wonderful parents, who live and work in Charlottesville, Va. I have visited the city several times now and really love it. They have some of the best used book stores I’ve come across. I did not know how huge the festival was until [...]

Alex Beam has an article on Harry Frankfurt’s On Bullshit in today’s Globe. I don’t know about you, but I find it annoying that they just don’t print the word.

I wish this was available online, but unfortunately there is no link to this interview with Jonathan Safran Foer. I came across it in Ingram’s Advance magazine, which consists mostly of ads and lists of new books coming the next month, but they usually include an article or two. They have a 3 page interview [...]