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"... the sense I get of my generation of writers and intellectuals or whatever is that it's 3:00 A.M. and the couch has several burn-holes and somebody's thrown up in the umbrella stand and we're wishing the revel would end." Read the whole interview here....
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All I want for Christmas is no more books foisted upon me by people whose taste in reading I don't agree with. And Joe Queenan of the NYT also agrees with me in his Christmas article "Wish List: No More Books!" Reprinted here b/c of that nasty NYT habit of...
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Freakonomics
by lz in Reading Archive on 24Dec2005
Definitely as good and readable as all the hype surrounding it (unlike The World is Flat, which I found to be distastefully obvious). Topics as unlikely as abortion legalization in 1976 causing the decrease in crime in the mid 1900s; drug dealer infestation to figure out their sociology (most live...
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Endings
by lz in Weblog on 03Dec2005
What are the options for authors finishing off and wrapping up their stories? Great Telegraph article on the ends of books, contrasted with the importance of beginings. Suggests that writers conceive of an ending when they begin writing, so they have a life raft they can swim towards as they...
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The Middle Mind
by lz in Reading Archive on 03Dec2005
White has awoken my slumbering senses so far... I'm 65 pages in and feel more alive than before I began. "... to make something that has the click of invention... is to feel that life has been pulled from the abyss called death of perception wherein one is dumbly pent...
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After a couple of cross-country flights, finally finished this 500 pager. Steingarten writes well about food, tho' nothing revolutionary. His endlessly deep pockets secures him $4k worth of caviar in a few months time, trips to and fro (France, Thailand, Baja California, New Orleans, Italy), and mounds of ingredients (pot...
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A half-step above beach reading, mildly interesting. High school girls involved in a triple shooting; Perri, Kat, Jodie the tight threesome since 3rd grade; Binnie & Eve the two farmgirls who don't smell so good. The detectives. Peter Lasko the actor who lands a part in a Miramax movie but...
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