My Lion Can Beat Up Your Stupid Wizard
From Bookninja, I learned about this great article that details the sometimes bitter and contentious relationship between CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. Seems they fought frequently, sometimes violently. At one point, the pair argued about The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe which prompted Lewis to write that there’s “no harm in him, only needs…
continue readingBondurant Reads at Baltimore Book Festival
I recently mentioned Matt Bondurant’s great story, Telemetry in the new issue of Glimmertrain. And of course, he was one of the earlier interviews conducted for Slushpile. This past weekend, Bondurant appeared at the Baltimore Book Festival where he read from his novel, The Third Translation and also took part in a panel discussion entitled…
continue readingDrugs, Vomit, and No Novacaine on Oprah
This was on all the book blogs last week during our power outage, but if you happened to miss the news, Oprah recently reversed her strategy of picking classics only for her book club. And the new selection is James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces. It’s an interesting selection for a couple of reasons, but…
continue readingHot New Deals
There were a couple of interesting book deals that caught my eye last week. –Our pals at MacAdam/Cage locked up Marshall Karp’s The Rabbit Factory which centers around a series of murders targeted toward a California theme park. James Patterson says that Karp “could well be the Carl Hiassen of Los Angeles” which is high…
continue readingBoD: On Celtic Tides
In sharp contrast to the coke-snorting, chick-grabbing, crowd-rocking antics of the music books I’ve recently been re-reading, On Celtic Tides: One Man’s Journey Around Ireland by Sea Kayak by Chris Duff provides a nice slow meditative pace. Duff’s twelve hundred-mile circumnavigation of the Emerald Isle provides both thrilling moments of adventure in the sea and…
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