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.
Tag Archives: book review
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 […]
Rapid Review: Among Friends by M. F. K. Fisher
Life back then was sometimes as pointy as a Victorian settee without decorative pillows.
Critiquing the Critic who Critiques the Critics
One man’s opinion about writers and writing.
