Bookdwarf

I live on the third floor and my apartment was shaking with the amount of wind blowing. This morning on the walk to the T, we encountered a surprise. Mr. Bookdwarf is standing in front of it so you can see how big it is:

Fuschia Dunop (I feel like I should call her by her first name alone with the amount I writer about her, but I digress) has an article about the food stalls of Singapore in the Financial Times. There is a stall with the famous Hainan chicken rice, where the brusque proprietor doles out plastic platefuls [...]

Fuchsia Dunlop has done some pretty great travel and food pieces over the years, so when we got Land of Plenty we did a good deal of oohing and aahing over the pictures and recipes. But it wasn’t until this weekend that we actually cooked anything from it. We’ve finally gotten the range hood installed [...]

I’ve been reading faster than I can post! Here are a few quick reviews of things I highly recommend: Things We Didn’t See Coming by Steve Amsterdam Amsterdam’s debut features nine stories linked by a single narrator, related over several increasingly difficult decades of post-apocalyptic life. But instead of focusing on the pain and awfulness [...]

One of the books getting the most buzz at the Winter Institute last week (basically camp for booksellers) was Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes, a novel about Vietnam. Morgan Entrekin, founder of Grove Atlantic, loved it so much that he struck a deal with Marlantes’ current publisher to put out a  more widely distributed edition. I [...]

Who doesn’t like to look at alcoholic and drug addicted authors? Goodreads has an author snapshot of Zachary Mason, who wrote the lovely The Lost Books of the Odyssey. I found him quite charming when I had the pleasure of meeting him last week in San Jose. This week 5 Chapters is serializing Sam Lipsyte’s [...]