Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. This is a choice with which no one with decent taste in books could disagree. She's deserved it for years. It's also nice to see the Nobel committee pick someone who has so focused on the inner...
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Who needs some reading material? Horny Ghost of Osama Bin Laden: Rise of the Ghost has been published. When an American diver goes in the search of the body of.
Time to make an announcement that's been in the works for awhile. Today, I signed a contract with The New Press. The book is tentatively titled "Out of Sight: A.
I have a piece up at David Axe's joint on military institutions and the USAF: With the Iraq War over and the fighting in Afghanistan winding down, why does the United States need to maintain two large land armies, the Army and Marine Corps? The...
The great Texas writer John Graves has passed. Goodbye to a River, about a float trip down the Brazos before it was dammed, is a truly wonderful book.
I just finished re-reading Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio for the first time in many years. While I've been in Mexico, I've reacquainted myself with the literature of the Gilded Age,.
And by this travesty I mean the threat of Steven Spielberg directing a remake of The Grapes of Wrath, a movie I would like to think exactly 0 people would find necessary or interesting, but then again Esther Zuckerman seems excited about it in the...
I found this interesting. FICTION 1. Susann, The Love Machine 2. Roth, Portnoy's Complaint 3. Puzo, The Godfather 4. Nabokov, Ada 5. Crichton, The Andromeda Strain 6. Davis, The Pretenders.
[ERIK SAYS] This podcast discusses Ari Kelman's new book, A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek. It explores how different groups contest the historical meanings of the.
Dan Hampton, author of Viper Pilot, doesn't sound like a pleasant man. This requires qualification; I suspect he'd be a lot of fun for a night of drinking, but he...
Philip Roth, the greatest American writer of his era, claims to have retired. In the end, this might be a good thing, assuming he really retires. While his 90s and.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is correct. The attacks on Lena Dunham as the ultimate purveyor of white privilege in the arts are utterly bizarre. This isn't to say Dunham doesn't benefit from.