Highbrow Lowbrow

Source: The New Republic

THE GENESIS, and huge international success, of the Venetian suite policière involving Commissario Guido Brunetti has to be one of the oddest publishing stories in years. Donna Leon (if that isn’t a nom de plume it should be), a New Englander of Iris ...
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Source: Calcutta Telegraph

Among the many excuses for laziness, is it possible that motherhood might be one? The world has noted that Aishwarya Rai has not been working hard enough. It is not the business of show business to be kind to proliferating chins. Ms Rai had mo ...
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What’s On Your Nightstand?: Stripping Down

Source: Book Riot

All right, you readers. This week, make me proud! Tell the world what’s on your nightstand, even if you’re still reading the same book as you were in April–last April. As you peruse those bedside stacks, consider this: Do you strip your ha ...
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Connelly on Nostra Aetate

Source: Commonweal

I’m not a neutral arbiter — on the dust jacket of the book I call it one of the most important books ever written on modern Catholicism — but it was good to see Peter Gordon’s interesting review of John Connelly’s Connelly’s achievements a ...
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E-books put the X factor into fiction

Source: Noosa News

The e-reader is considered to be the new “brown paper bag”. MANY may now know who EL James is. We may have read about the extraordinary success of Fifty Shades of Grey, her bestselling, sadomasochistic romance ...
Full article at: Noosa News  More like this  3 days ago, 7:21pm CDT

Post-Game Thread: Melky, Posey, and Cain

Source: McCovey Chronicles

Buster Posey was having a good year before tonight. He was hitting .350 at the end of April, but everyone kind of knew he was doing it with hits he was stealing out of Brandon Crawford's locker. Still, even w ...
Full article at: McCovey Chronicles  More like this  4 days ago, 10:48pm CDT

The Alison Bechdel Interview

Source: The Comics Journal

For readers unfamiliar with her work, it might appear that Alison Bechdel came out of nowhere to receive critical acclaim for her comic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, published in 2006. But her devoted fa ...
Full article at: The Comics Journal  More like this  4 days ago, 6:52am CDT

Frank Deford’s latest book a must-read for those serious about sports journalism

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

Frank Deford has a mustache, and he has had it for a long time. ‘‘Since, I guess, the mustache era came in,’’ he says on the phone from his home in Connecticut. The facial hair is part of him now, but being the concerned, perceptive, psychologically invo ...
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