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  Q1 2015 Books

  03.30.15 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Collected Stories Amy Hempel The Toughest Indian in the World Sherman Alexie From Sacramento G.T. Dempsey The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Thirty-first Annual Collection ed. Gardner Dozois Blood Crimes: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Chase for Jefferson Davis James L. Swanson What We Talk About when We Talk About Love: Stories Raymond […]

• Books

  Q4 2014 Books

  12.31.14 | Permalink | Comment?

  A Good Parcel of English Soil Richard Mabey A Northern Line Minute William Leith Buttoned-Up Fantastic Man The 32 Stops Danny Dorling Mind the Child Camilla Batmanghelidjh and Kids Company Collected Fictions Jorge Luis Borges Albion: A Guide to Legendary Britain Jennifer Westwood Lila Marilynne Robinson Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Claire Tomalin My Life as a […]

• Books

  Q3 2014 Books

  09.30.14 | Permalink | Comment?

  Stonemouth Iain Banks Populists and Progressives Norman K. Risjord Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel A. Anatoli (Kuznetsov) The Elizabethan World Picture E.M.W. Tillyard Oracle Night Paul Auster Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic Tom Holland Irenaeus of Lyons Robert M. Grant Shosha Isaac Bashevis Singer The Annotated […]

• Books

  Q2 2014 Books

  06.29.14 | Permalink | Comment?

  White Apples Jonathan Carroll The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection ed. Gardner Dozois Trask Don Berry Fascism Alan Cassels A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. George F. Kennan: An American Life John Lewis Gaddis Composed: A Memoir Rosanne Cash The Casting of Mr O’Shaughnessy Eamon Delaney […]

• Books, Foreigners, Self-referential

  Fair warning

  04.11.14 | Permalink | Comment?

  This year and last have not been auspicious if you are one of my favorite writers.  First Iain Banks died last year.  Now Sue Townsend has passed away.  Adrian Mole and I were roughly contemporaries, if not exactly equally neurotic.  I remember laughing out loud at this: The stupid dog is back.  I am not […]

• Books

  Q1 2014 Books

  03.30.14 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Hydrogen Sonata Iain M. Banks The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies Alan Taylor Wild in the City: A Guide to Portland’s Natural Areas eds. Michael C. Houck & M.J. Cody Midaq Alley Naguib Mahfouz The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies Marcel […]

• Books

  Q4 2013 Books

  12.31.13 | Permalink | Comment?

  How to Read Greek Vases Joan R Mertens Hemingway: A Biography Jeffrey Meyers The Wild Place Kathryn Hulme The Good Earth Pearl S Buck Panzer Operations: The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, 1941-1945 transl. Steven H Newton The Tank Killers: A History of America’s World War II Tank Destroyer Force Harry Yeide Hot Sky at Midnight Robert Silverberg The Substance of […]

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  Q3 2013 Books

  09.29.13 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Civil War: Red River to Appomatox Shelby Foote Trasportation: Stories Nancy Rommelmann His Mother’s Son Cai Emmons The Ginger Man J.P. Donleavy Castle Richmond Anthony Trollope B-52: Boeing Stratofortress William G. Holder Wise Blood Flannery O’Connor A Short History of England Simon Jenkins Budayeen Nights George Alec Effinger 1Q84 Haruki Murakami Against Heresies Saint […]

• Books

  Q2 2013 Books

  06.30.13 | Permalink | Comment?

  Light M. John Harrison What We Talk About When We Talk About the Tube John Lanchester Transition Iain Banks The Book of Lost Things John Connolly Escape From Camp 14 Blaine Harden Memory Linda Nagata The Age of Jackson Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. The Year of Decision: 1846 Bernard DeVoto An Architectural Guidebook to Portland […]

• Books, Foreigners

  Mind The Gap

  05.02.13 | Permalink | Comment?

  Last year when we visited New York, I grooved on the subway system.  Last month in London I was similarly enamored of the Underground.  I’m not sure exactly what the attraction is; for both systems it’s perhaps a combination of convenience, admiration of engineering prowess, and for the latter the iconic Underground map that ties […]

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