Bookdwarf

It’s still crazy here at work. Not much time to post. I am in the middle of The Singapore Grip and loving it. I also read Michelle Tea’s new book Rose of No Man’s Land (due out in February) over the weekend. I hope to give it a longer review at some later date. In [...]

It’s a victory, sort of, for the opponents of the Patriot Act. The Senate voted about an hour ago 52 to 47 to end debate on the matter, but this also means that the topic can be brought up again. 60 votes are required under Senate rules to end debate. What does this mean? Is [...]

Here’s a rare, lengthy interview with Philip Roth at the Guardian. “There once was this photographer from New York. ‘Smile,’ she always said. ‘Smile!’ I couldn’t stand her or the whole phenomenon. Why smile into a camera? It makes no human sense. So I got rid of both her and the smile.” Robert Birnbaum spoke [...]

I mentioned a few weeks ago that the buying office was giving a presentation plus Q&A on December 1st. My store has posted my suggestions, which are culled from my reading list this past year. This is not my ‘Top Books of 2005′ list, which I am still compiling. But check here to see what [...]

The Bizarre Bazaar will be this Sunday at the Cyclorama in the South End of Boston. The past years have grown exponentially (it used to be at the VFW hall near my house), so this year they went big time with a huge venue. The entry fee is only $1 and I guarantee that anything [...]

Last night a friend called and said he had an extra ticket to the Iron & Wine/Calexico show at the Avalon. Usually, I don’t enjoy shows much anymore, but I decided to check it out since it was 2 bands I love and I am glad I went. Since I am bad with song titles [...]

Sorry for the silence on my end. As you can imagine, work gets a little hectic the closer we get towards x-mas. I’ve been reading like mad too, though. I’ve finished several books in the past few weeks, including The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell, which I liked so much, I bought the other [...]

Holy shit, this sounds awesome. According to this LA Times article (which I found on Drawn), Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, Michael Chabon, and Jonathan Franzen all in one episode of the Simpsons. “We started with the idea of Moe as Charles Bukowski,” explains Matt Warburton, who wrote the episode. “We brought Lisa in as the [...]