Category Archives: Books & Authors
January 2020
- 2020-01-20 - Earthsea
May 2019
- 2019-05-17 - “Well-run societies don't need heroes"
October 2018
- 2018-10-08 - Warlight - Michael Ondaatje
July 2018
- 2018-07-27 - The Mediterranean
December 2016
- 2016-12-20 - Death of the Roman Republic and Birth of the American One
- 2016-12-15 - Founding Fathers
- 2016-12-08 - Rubicon, Cicero
April 2016
- 2016-04-14 - 1453 the Book
April 2015
- 2015-04-14 - "Wolf Hall" Reading Notes (1)
- 2015-04-12 - Hilary Mantel and Her "Wolf Hall"
- 2015-04-09 - Reading David Mitchell
- 2015-04-08 - Michael Crichton's "Travels"
January 2015
- 2015-01-16 - "Lawrence in Arabia" - a Mesmerizing Read!
November 2014
- 2014-11-15 - Amazon vs. Publishers, Little Fish vs. The Whale?
October 2014
- 2014-10-09 - Green Apple Books and Music - 2nd Store
March 2014
December 2012
- 2012-12-13 - Joseph Kennedy, 'Patriarch' of An American Dynasty
- 2012-12-10 - Chairman Mao's Great Famine
June 2012
- 2012-06-16 - Euro Crisis
January 2012
- 2012-01-11 - "Genius..., is supremely normal."
July 2011
- 2011-07-29 - The Dragon Wakes
October 2010
- 2010-10-16 - Recent New Yorker Articles
March 2010
- 2010-03-23 - Staring into the Abyss - Reading "Too Big to Fail" by Sorkin, And A Couple New Yorker Articles from March'10
August 2009
- 2009-08-27 - Graham Greene's Unfinished Murder Mystery
- 2009-08-17 - of Human Bondage
- 2009-08-10 - Writer's Room and Its View
- 2009-08-01 - Bloodshed vs. The Cuckoo Clock
July 2009
- 2009-07-26 - Chilly Summer
May 2009
- 2009-05-09 - Rebecca West: "The Court and the Castle"
April 2009
- 2009-04-26 - Mysterious Force At Work
December 2008
- 2008-12-29 - 2008 - Books and Movies
- 2008-12-04 - Shuttle, Paul Theroux, and The Reader
November 2008
- 2008-11-03 - Cities and Ambition by Paul Graham
October 2008
- 2008-10-12 - Autumn in San Francisco
August 2008
- 2008-08-06 - Strong Opinions
July 2008
February 2008
- 2008-02-29 - Stagflation and Ben Bernanke
- 2008-02-20 - Library Stairs!
January 2008
- 2008-01-03 - 2006 Movies and Books
- 2008-01-02 - 2007 Movies and Books
December 2007
- 2007-12-20 - Coetzee's New Book
November 2007
- 2007-11-26 - Web Form Design Best Practices
- 2007-11-06 - New Yorker Articles: Chocolate, Classical Music, and a Historian
October 2007
- 2007-10-15 - Random New Yorker articles
- 2007-10-03 - "That Heav'n would want spectators, God want praise..."
August 2007
- 2007-08-04 - Spy: Old and New
June 2007
- 2007-06-17 - Sunday Afternoon with Maugham
- 2007-06-10 - Green Apple Seed and Park Life
- 2007-06-01 - Michael Ondaatje's "Divisadero"
February 2007
- 2007-02-18 - A Magazine that Reads Like a Book
January 2007
- 2007-01-02 - The Street - Leonard Cohen
September 2006
- 2006-09-28 - FreshAir: Murder in Amsterdam
August 2006
- 2006-08-06 - Neural Theory of Language
July 2006
- 2006-07-22 - Things that You Learn at a Shuttle Stop
March 2006
- 2006-03-10 - A MIND IN CONNEMARA
December 2005
- 2005-12-02 - One Billion Customers
- 2005-12-02 - Paul Theroux "The Best Year of My Life"
October 2005
- 2005-10-01 - "Smoke and Mirrors" - A Geek's Book
August 2005
- 2005-08-16 - Forgetfulness - by Bill Collins
- 2005-08-14 - Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion
May 2005
- 2005-05-31 - Closure of Wessex Bookstore
- 2005-05-13 - The Perfect Day by Alice N. Persons
April 2005
- 2005-04-13 - The Success and Failure of Picasso
March 2005
- 2005-03-02 - Voltaire's Garden
February 2005
- 2005-02-10 - Today is Boris Pasternak's Birthday
- 2005-02-01 - "A Poison Tree" - William Blake
January 2005
- 2005-01-21 - Poem: "The Haunted Palace" by Edgar Allan Poe
December 2004
- 2004-12-21 - For Another Six Months: Harry Potter 6
October 2004
- 2004-10-18 - Today's Writer's Almanac
September 2004
- 2004-09-06 - Indian Summer Reading Notes
- 2004-09-02 - I, Claudius (Cont'd)
August 2004
- 2004-08-24 - I, Claudius
- 2004-08-04 - Writer's Almanac
July 2004
- 2004-07-29 - The Writer's Almanac
- 2004-07-16 - Life's Cards - White Oleander
- 2004-07-08 - The Third Man - Graham Greene
June 2004
- 2004-06-29 - Oracle Night - Obsession With A Blue Notebook
- 2004-06-22 - The Lovely Bones
May 2004
- 2004-05-13 - Earth Your Dancing Place
- 2004-05-09 - Happiness, Promise, and Beauty
- 2004-05-03 - Reading Time...
April 2004
- 2004-04-06 - Poem: "Rain Travel," by William S. Merwin
March 2004
- 2004-03-05 - Random Encounters
December 2003
- 2003-12-05 - particleboard particles
October 2003
- 2003-10-20 - The Stone Woman
- 2003-10-08 - A Paragraph from The Old Man and Me
September 2003
- 2003-09-09 - THE SURROGATE by TESSA HADLEY
August 2003
- 2003-08-14 - The Zanzibar Chest
- 2003-08-03 - The Emperor of Scent
July 2003
- 2003-07-16 - Evil is insolent and strong...
- 2003-07-02 - Harry Potter and Nemo
June 2003
- 2003-06-20 - The City of Clowns
- 2003-06-05 - The Ending Is Hard
- 2003-06-02 - Nabokov's Strong Opinions
- 2003-06-02 - The Obscure Object by Jeffrey Eugenides
- 2003-06-01 - Middlesex