books

  • Commerce

    My chapbook The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon is now available for purchase on Amazon.com! Thanks to Brent for giving me the info forever ago—I finally did it!

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  • Cosmetic Surgery for Dummies; School Blues

    So, my blog is slowly coming back. I’m not super excited about the blocks Blogger put into place when it comes to template-jacking (everything I had before was done “by hand” by altering code on the template), but at least I got the Buffy quote back…and more things are on the way, I hope. Some

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  • Update on Boo

    Also, I got these books, which I tucked into my carryon and read on the plane: Now You’re the Enemy, James HallBLOOM, last winter’s issue. The first place I went when I had free time in Manhattan: H&M.Why? Because I’m a frugal Scandinavian!I bought jeans.

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  • And now for a non-shoe crisis!

    “The social quality of literature is still visible in the popularity of bestsellers. Publishers get away with making boring, baloney-mill novels into bestsellers via mere PR because people need bestsellers. It is not a literary need. It is a social need. We want books everybody is reading (and nobody finishes) so we can talk about

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  • The Handmaid’s Tale

    From time to time, my mind returns to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Have you ever read it? I can’t even remember why I first did; it might have been on Maria’s recommendation when we were both in college. I had never read more than a single poem of Atwood’s at that time, so this

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  • One in four did not read a book in 2006

    WASHINGTON – There it sits on your night stand, that book you’ve meant to read for who knows how long but haven’t yet cracked open. Tonight, as you feel its stare from beneath that teetering pile of magazines, know one thing — you are not alone. One in four adults say they read no books

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