Mouth taste and moral taste and other thoughts from Adam Gopnik
Charlie the Tuna, France, the film Hugo, and a salad dressing recipe. All that and then some in my essay about Adam Gopnik’s The Table Comes First.
Category Archives: Reading and Writing
Family doctors, Maine, environmental pollutants, acronyms, healthcare, and John McPhee
New essay/book review on Bookslut today. Nobody is immune to healthcare woes or the lure of Maine…a brief excerpt below: It’s no secret that the state of health care in […]
The Grass is Always Greener. New review on “Locus Pocus”
My review of Simon Sebag Montefiore’s book Jerusalem: The Biography is now published on Bookslut.com If you are interested in additional resources or have questions about the region, please send me […]
Reading and Dressing Habits
Though I review books, I often am not convivial about book recommendations myself. Often, books are praised too quickly, when they are basking in the warm days of their launch, […]
Book Review: Malevolent Envy, Relapse, and Lemon Tarts
Originally published in American Book Review, December/January 2011 Books reviewed: In Envy Country by Joan Frank, University of Notre Dame Press, 2010 and Feeding Strays by Stefanie Freele, Lost Horse Press, 2009. […]
Dear Author, Promote Thyself.
As an NBCC book critic, there are things I do before critiquing a book: I read the book; I try to hear the author speak or read his or her […]
Book Review: Otherwise Known as the Human Condition by Geoff Dyer
In lieu of a blog post, go to Bookslut, where you can (and should!) read my latest book review on Geoff Dyer’s essay collection, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition.
Book Review: Freele and Frank and the women who haunt them.
American Book Review (with the kind assistance of Thomas Williams) recently published my combination book review of two short story collections: Feeding Strays by Stefanie Freele and In Envy Country […]
The Marketing of Literature
Every time I pick up this pencil, which is often, as I like to scribble in the books I read, I think of the author, Rodes Fishburne. Rodes gave out […]
Rapid Review: Palestine by Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco takes us through the Occupied Palestinian Territories during the first intifada against Israel in his comic documentary penned during that same time. From the Green Line and back, […]
