Posts about “books”
I will be chasing your starlight.
Reading and running
#FridayFive: Unread Books
View the Friday Five from March 8th, 2013
The Record Books
What if Abbey Road had been a book instead of an album? How about Exile on Main Street? The Rockpot is selling packs of gorgeous postcards and prints of just such imaginations. I love the ones for Violator and Brothers in Arms. I love all of them, actually. They also have theoretical iOS app logos
Alternate Endings
The war seemed as far away as the football games of some one else’s college.
Not Usually Like This
On empathy
The Heming Way
I just received an email from the publisher of a new book about Hemingway. The book is titled The Heming Way: How to Unleash the Booze-Inhaling, Animal-Slaughtering, War-Glorifying, Hairy-Chested Retro-Sexual Legend Within, Just Like Papa!. The email asked if I’d be interested in getting a copy to review, to which I of course replied in
To Have and Have Another
How to drink like Hemingway
Republican Party Reptile
A boy is hitchhiking on a country road. A car stops for him, and the driver asks, “Are you a Republican or a Democrat?” “Democrat,” says the boy, and the car speeds off. Another car stops, and the driver asks, “Are you a Republican or a Democrat?” “Democrat,” says the boy, and the car speeds
Happy Birthday, Papa
Today would have been the 113th birthday of Ernest Hemingway, born in Oak Park, Illinois. He started his writing life as a journalist, but when he was in Paris after World War I, working as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star, he was encouraged to take a more literary turn by other American writers