Reviews
June 22, 2009
Evan Wright’s America: Hella Real, Hella Harsh 1
by Noah Deutsch
There’s a scene early on in the mini-series version of Generation Kill in which Lee Tergesen, the actor who plays Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright, wins over the Marines from 1st Recon Battalion with whom he is embedded. Recon is the eyes and ears of Operation Iraqi Freedom and one of the forwardmost units to [...]
June 13, 2009
Baseball’s Raucous Early Days: The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence Ritter 0
by C. Max Magee
My father in law has a huge collection of radio programs that he has taped and cataloged over the last two or three decades, and several years ago he gave me a couple of interesting tapes from the late 1980s. They contain a recorded performance of a baseball-themed show put on by the late baseball [...]
June 4, 2009
Amis and Amis 0
by Lydia Kiesling
If you have more than one copy of a beloved book, you can be the charming, laissez-fair book owner who lends freely and says “return it never,” instead of the saturnine turd who continues to brood over a two-dollar copy of Lonesome Dove which someone may have, but probably did not, fail to return in [...]
June 3, 2009
Buzz’s Illustrated Book Notes: Gaz, Fanelli, Hundertwasser 1
by Buzz Poole
Infrequent Millions contributor Buzz Poole has written for numerous publications and is the author of Madonna of the Toast. He is also the proprietor of a blog by the same name. “Illustrated book” – the term is as vague as it is precise. Most children’s books are illustrated, yet they are rarely lumped into this [...]
May 27, 2009
Buyer, Beware: Clancy Martin’s How to Sell and the Great Financial Meltdown 0
by Garth Risk Hallberg
It’s the opposition that defines our age: Wall Street vs. Main Street. In the first presidential debate of the 2008 election, Senators Obama and McCain invoked it five times in as many minutes. A few days earlier, another Senator had publicly suggested that Wall Street owed Main Street an apology. Soon, Governor Sarah Palin would [...]
May 26, 2009
Woke Up With A Fever: The American Journals of Albert Camus 0
by Andrew Saikali
“Obliged to admit that for the first time in my life I feel myself in the middle of a psychological collapse.” Albert Camus was in Montevideo, nearing the end of a lecture tour of South America, when he entered those words into his diary. American Journals, chronicling Camus’ 1946 voyage to North America and his [...]
