R&BLers Friday Fun & Games
No harm in amusing ourselves in these troubled times. Everyone needs a break from the distressing conditions of life for far too many Americans and from the meritorious but exhausting efforts of...
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e-Readers & Book Lovers Club: To Gaze Upon the Truth and Not Blink
Anna Badkhen's collation of dispatches from the background to the war in Afghanistan were originally published in Foreign Policy and span a period of three weeks in country that she spent looking for...
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e-Readers & Book Club: For Our Next Read
There's no denying it. R&BLers have eclectic tastes. They also have a strong sense of commitment to building community. Thus, while this week's announcement of our next selection for the e-Book...
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R&BLers: Little Gems
Reading moods sometimes overtake me. For instance, I feel like I need to read an historical romance by Georgette Heyer because I’ve forgotten the pleasure she once gave me when I was 14 or 15 years...
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R&BLers: 2011 MBFI – Chillin’ with Calvin Trillin
Yes, R&BLers, it’s that time of the year again -- Miami Book Fair time. I will only be semi-present around here as I’ll be busy attending as many event sessions as I can in the hopes of reporting...
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R&BLers: FYI Update
Just some things to keep R&BLers aware of some small changes in our regular line-up and some news that I think will be of general interest.You'll find the Weekly Magazine Schedule, Miami Book Fair...
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R&BLers: 2011 MBFI – Ron Suskind on How Not to Run an Organization
The first impression Ron Suskind, author of Confidence Men, gives is of a small man waiting to explode with pent up energy and outrage. At the podium he is animated, verbal, dynamic, forceful,...
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R&BLers: 2011 MBFI -- Contrarian Child Splits My Sides
In his own words, Michael Moore spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E to authority, especially when that authority tries to enforce what is W-R-O-N-G. For nearly three hours Sunday night, I sat in a room packed with...
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R&BLers: 2011 MBFI -- "Walking Down the Blade of a Knife"
I'm floored when I consider that Jim Lehrer began his TV broadcasting career with Watergate, and the rest of it has been on PBS in variations of the 6 o'clock news hour -- the first news hour on...
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R&BLers: 2011 MBFI -- "The Warmth of Other Suns"
The title of this year's National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction comes, of course from the lines in Richard Wright's book, that is really a prayer.I was leaving the South to fling myself into...
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e-Readers & Book Lovers Club: Not the Ur-Hamlet
Sometimes reading a book is like traveling down a difficult road. Such is the journey for me into the mystery of The Shakespeare Manuscript by Stewart Buettner. For a few chapters, the going is...
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R&BLers: 2011 MBFI -- Writers' Voices
One of the greatest pleasures of the Miami Book Fair is listening to authors read from their works and then talk about them – their writing processes, answering questions about where characters and...
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R&BLers: 2011 MBFI – Spanning the Scientific Era with Sobel and Gleick
I knew that James Gleick wrote biographies of Feynman and Isaac Newton and is famous for his book Chaos: Making a New Science. But did you know that James Gleick made his fortune as the developer of...
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R&BLers: 2011 MBFI -- Found in Translation
China, one of the oldest civilizations with the oldest literary tradition is experiencing a Chinese Renaissance that exceeds its economic awakening. Such writers as Jiang Bing, Yan Lianke, Jing Yi,...
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R&BLers: My Favorite Indie Bookstore
Reading, we're told, is fundamental. Since the era of printed books began almost 600 years ago, booksellers and their stores followed on the heels of scribes and their shopfronts. Now, we live in an...
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e-Readers & Book Lovers Club: Truth Tell & Deception, Part I
Sometimes a book can be wonderful and painful, raw and polished, profound and simple, doom-laden and hopeful all at once. And when it is, it packs a punch. Robert Townsend has, I think, written such...
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R&BLers Support DK Subscription Fund Raiser
So, you're a Khronic Kossack, right? You check in more than twice a day to read what your favorite authors have to say about OWS, which face-painted person is running for the Republican nomination...
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R&BLers: Another Reading Year Gone By
Here we are, approaching the end of another leisurely orbit around the sun. What have you done with the time? I hope, like me, you spent much of it reading many wonderful books and not too many...
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To All Readers & Book Lovers -- My Gratitude
From the bottom of my heart, thank you to an uncommonly gentle reader who has chosen to remain anonymous for the gift of a lifetime subscription.
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R&BLers: Mulling Things Over
Hard to believe, but R&BLers is 10 months old. Looking back at where we were in February brings a smile to my face. Do you remember the angst around here? The naked fear some Kossacks expressed...
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