Sorry about the radio silence of late but off-line life has been intruding. I have some reviews and some opinions I would like to share but I need to find some time to get them down in pixels. There has been a lot of discussion in lit blogs about local newspaper coverage of books. Ohio [...]
Susan Wise Bauer offers a very interesting review/discussion of the book Finally Feminist: A Pragmatic Christian Understanding of Gender over at Books & Culture: On Slippery Slopes, the Blogosphere, and (oh, yes) Women. It is very hard to capture the review in a short blockquote, so read the whole thing, but this section gets at [...]
- In an column about old media and new media Tod Linberg has a nice summation of the strengths and weaknesses of new media: Let us begin with praise of the new media, the online world of Web sites and blogs, for what they do best. First, research. The background is now part of the [...]
Heather MacDonald is sick and tired of it. She has decided to speak out and be proud. No longer willing to tolerate the snide remarks and the arrogant condescension, she wants the world to know: she is conservative and atheist and she isn’t afraid to talk about it. There is only one little problem with [...]
- In a post about the Nobel Prize Frank drops this interesting comment: To which I might add that, when asked about great American novelists, people tend to cite Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, etc. Not to take anything away from them, but Willa Cather is easily their equal. I have to agree based on my [...]
For those of you who just can’t get enough news about me, writing by me, etc. – or for those of you on the look out for new sources of reading material – allow me to introduce The Critical. What is The Critical? Glad you asked: The Critical is a quarterly journal of political, topical, [...]
As I mentioned earlier, RedState’s new format is one with multiple blogs. There is RedState itself for politics, RedState Sports for sports, Confirm Them for judicial issues, and Crosstabs for polling and demographics. As I had hinted at earlier as well, there is a blog that is near and dear to my heart and that [...]
Below find a collection of links that have been brought to my attention. – Failbetter has an interview with Stephen Dixon worth checking out. It includes this interesting exchange on collection of stories versus novel: Both I. and End of I. read like collections of interrelated stories, but McSweeney’s released them as novels. Was this [...]
OK, I know what you are thinking: “Is this a golf blog or a book blog?” And of course, I would answer “Both actually.” Yes, I love both books and golf and sometimes it is easier to blog about one than the other. But don’t you worry there will be book content on this here [...]