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December 27, 2005
Holiday loot 0
by C. Max Magee
Unlike in recent years, I didn’t get a ton of books this year for Christmas nor did I give any – and, no, this had nothing to do with Joe Queenan’s recent screed in the New York Times against giving books as gifts – though I can see where he’s coming from. Nonetheless, I did [...]
December 23, 2005
A Year in Reading by Patrick Brown 0
by Patrick Brown
Best Novel: The Epicure’s Lament by Kate Christensen – Hugo Whittier is a 40-year-old misanthrope living in self-imposed exile at Waverly, his ancestral home on the Hudson River. Hugo is rapidly smoking himself to death, but doing it with real style. When his estranged brother separates from his wife and moves in, he drags Hugo [...]
December 21, 2005
Holiday links 0
by C. Max Magee
Hope everyone’s holiday is going well. I’ll be putting up one or two more “Year in Reading” posts and then The Millions will most likely be dark until the New Year. But first, a couple of links: One of my favorite end of year lists is the bookfinder.com “Top 10 out of print books”: the [...]
December 20, 2005
A Year in Reading: Winning the War on Christmas 0
by Derek Teslik
My old friend Derek and I used to trade books back and forth in high school, and we spent many hours lurking in used book stores looking for collections of Richard Brautigan poetry and other such things. Several years later, we were roommates in Los Angeles, and one day he showed me his “blog.” I [...]
December 15, 2005
A Year in Reading: Michelle Richmond 0
by Michelle Richmond
I asked Michelle Richmond to share with us the best books she read this year. Michelle is the author of The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress and Dream of the Blue Room. She also keeps a blog, Sans Serif. She put together a really great post for us. The Death of a Beekeeper, by Lars [...]
December 15, 2005
Bigfoot back 0
by C. Max Magee
In August, Emre mentioned In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot by Graham Roumieu, a very funny book – written in Bigfoot’s own voice and filled with illustrations that somehow straddle grotesque and amusing. Now Roumieu has brought Bigfoot back for another book, Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir, so Bigfoot fans can get [...]
