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Sunday, November 30, 2008

What's in a Name?

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A nurse I hadn't seen before was hanging my IV bag the other day when I noticed her name tag. "Is your name Arsenic?" "Ar...
Saturday, November 29, 2008

It's All in My Head

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I can't imagine driving a car. That fierce and constant calculus of velocity, distance, and direction, which the ordinary brain does mor...
Friday, November 28, 2008

List, List, O List!

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This review appeared recently in the Washington Post Book World : “HAVE YOU SEEN...?” A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films By David Thom...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

My Own Private 9/11

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It was September 11 of this year when I discovered that my brain wasn't working right. (Don't even try. Every possible joke based on...
Sunday, August 31, 2008

Learning to Read

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The following review appeared today in the San Francisco Chronicle : HOW FICTION WORKS By James Wood Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 266 pp., $24...
Sunday, August 10, 2008

Summer Page-Turners (and Some Aren't)

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The following review appeared today in the Dallas Morning News : THE GARGOYLE By Andrew Davidson Doubleday, 480 pp., $25.95 “The Ga...
Monday, August 4, 2008

Bird's Blythe Spirit

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The following review appeared yesterday in the Houston Chronicle : HOW PERFECT IS THAT By Sarah Bird Knopf, 302 pp., $23.95 Sarah Bir...
Sunday, July 20, 2008

The Plot Thickens

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The following review appeared today in the Houston Chronicle : PALACE COUNCIL By Stephen L. Carter Knopf, 514 pp., $26.95 Advice to n...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Jon Stewart Gets It Right (As Usual)

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Sunday, July 6, 2008

The Stripper and the Terrorist

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The following review appeared today in the Houston Chronicle : THE GARDEN OF LAST DAYS By Andre Dubus III Norton, 537 pp., $24.95 No...