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Category Archives: Books Publishing and Writing
The MSM Crackup
Paleo Retiree writes: As a former MSM flunky, I spent much of the campaign marveling at how clueless and often plain wrong the establishment press coverage of the election was. The reporting was so out of touch with middle America, and the … Continue reading
Rana Foroohar’s “Makers and Takers”
Paleo Retiree writes: This is a terrific journalistic account of how our economy and our financial life have come to their current awful states. (Full disclosure: I knew the author a wee bit back in my magazine days, and I liked and respected her.) Foroohar’s book … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, Politics and Economics
Tagged books, finance, politics, Rana Foroohar
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“Uncle” Sang as Peasants Sing
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: “Uncle” led the visitors through the anteroom into a small hall with a folding table and red chairs, then into the drawing room with a round birchwood table and a sofa, and finally into his private … Continue reading
Edgar Rice Burroughs Writes to Forrest Ackerman
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‘Tis Their Scalps or Ours
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The warrior in the oak had maintained a quick, though ineffectual fire, from the moment of his discovery. But his aim was interrupted by the vigilance of his enemies, whose rifles instantaneously bore on any part … Continue reading
The Merest Stray Phenomenon
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Tess was the merest stray phenomenon to Angel Clare as yet — a rosy, warming apparition which had only just acquired the attribute of persistence in his consciousness. So he allowed his mind to be occupied … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, Sex
Tagged Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
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Book Notes: “God Save the Mark” by Donald Westlake
Blowhard, Esq. writes: I enjoyed this Westlake, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel in 1968. Fred Fitch, a gullible sad sack, inherits $300,000 from his con man uncle and soon discovers that someone is willing to kill him to … Continue reading
“The Roosevelt Myth”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I had a good time reading John T. Flynn’s “The Roosevelt Myth.” Even many of Roosevelt’s fans will admit that his administration was, well, a little bonkers. But Flynn presents it as nothing short of revolutionary … Continue reading
Damn Your Mitts
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Dinah said she would prefer anything to being shot at again. I said it was all right with me, though I would rather have tried to find some path back to the city. We followed the … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing
Tagged Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest, The Continental Op
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