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Monthly Archives — April 2009

The list with no end in sight

As my “to read” list grows longer and longer (with a Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com gift certificate burning a hole in my pocket), I’ve added a few more books to the list, which is guaranteed to keep me busy until, oh, 2011 or so: Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible! (Jonathan Goldstein) – with tongue [...]

In my own little corner

On any reading/writing blog, there are (of course) lots of discussions about what to read, how to read, why read, who to read, etc. There isn’t a lot of discussion about where to read. Presumably this is because you can, in fact, read anywhere. And I mostly agree with that. But there is something to [...]

Lights, cameras…..Pulitzers!

Okay, maybe it only works that way if you’re a dork like me, but enough about the details. The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced on Monday! Let’s skip over the journalism awards (someone else can take care of those) and go straight to the arts: Elizabeth Strout won the day with the Fiction award for [...]