So do you have a cookbook there, Mrs. Muir?
Who knows why The Ghost and Mrs. Muir ended up on my Netflix list — I must have realized that I’d seen the TV version but never the film original….
Category Archives: on books
Back to the present
My friend Jill made me a super-cute purse for my birthday (as you can see) and it turns out I can fit three books in it at once. Three! I…
Covers judged, in pictures
The American Institute of Graphic Arts has announced the 2007 winners of their 50 books/50 covers competition. These are the best book covers as selected by designers, and include art…
Juding books by their covers at the New Yorker
Let’s say you’re working on a book. Let’s say you’d like for it to be reviewed in the pages of the New Yorker, and not sitting on the free-to-a-good-home book…
Linkety binkety boo
A short piece on Steve Erickson appeared in the July 2 issue of the LA Weekly, and I’ve just caught up with it. I’m not sure the author thinks about…
Now here’s a list
I waited a long time to get to this book. Gosh it’s good. At the bottom of the steps, he passes through the lost-articles room, lined with pegboard, furnished with…
The mercy crying game
I started reading a book last night, a book I thought would be fun. It didn’t grab me, but I was sleepy. So I crashed and after getting up, I…
Ray Bradbury, venerable but clueless
Ray Bradbury spoke at Long Beach’s doomed Acres of Books last night. He said nice, touching things about the bookstore and his fondness for it. Right on. Then he said:…
Responding to the litblogging boys
Ed swipes at Jay McInerney, unfairly, I think. McInerney’s review (of Andre Dubus III’s The Garden of Last Days) was so entertaining that it made me curious about what else…
Out Stealing Horses and more criticishness
Per Petterson’s “Out Stealing Horses” is currently the bestselling book at Powell’s. Which makes me feel not so bad about saying it just didn’t do it for me. Initially, I…
