Book Review: I Drink For A Reason
OnCover of I Drink for a Reason [Purchase Book] David Cross hasn’t done an album in a while — It’s Not Funny came out quite a few years ago, and aside from some TV and movie appearances, we haven’t seen a lot…
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Book Review: Born Standing Up
OnCover of Born Standing Up It’s safe to say that Steve Martin is a pretty good writer. Even the stuff he is embarrassed by is really, really good. Being a good writer, though, and an interesting fellow on top of that, it’s…
Review: A Wolf At The Table
OnCover via Amazon The writer Augusten Burroughs is back with another of his childhood memoirs of his strange family. We might remember him as the young boy with a box on his head from Running With Scissors, but in A Wolf At…
Book Review: Modern Arf
On[Purchase Book] This is the first volume of Craig Yoe‘s Arf series I’ve read (and the first in the series) — but I can tell I’m going to look for the others, Arf Museum, Arf Forum, and Comic Arf. The subtitle of…
Book Review: Inherent Vice
OnCover of Inherent Vice [Purchase Book] When I was first deciding that I was going to check out Thomas Pynchon, a lot of folks pointed me to his shortest novel, The Crying of Lot 49. I need to re-read it, but at…
Review: The Sirens of Titan
OnCover of Sirens of Titan The Sirens of Titan is Kurt Vonnegut‘s first foray into young-adult fiction — perhaps a genre he should have spent more time with, considering the success of this book. His skill at characterization is in full-force, particularly…
Book Review: The Baron In The Trees
On1st edition (publ. Giulio Einaudi) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) [Purchase Book] Italo Calvino‘s novel, The Baron in the Trees is what it says on the tin. The title’s not metaphorical; it’s actually about a Baron who lives in the trees. The book reads…
Review: Be A Nose
On[Purchase Book] Even though, like most people, I loved Maus, I think it was Breakdowns that really cemented me as a fan of Spiegelman’s work. So I was pretty excited when it turned out that McSweeney’s was publishing a three-volume set of…
Book Review: The Unlikely Disciple
OnImage via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] Despite being an atheist, I find Christian culture interesting. I’m perhaps not terribly well-versed in the Bible, though I’m not exactly a Jack Chick unsaved character who has never heard of this Jesus Christ guy. While I…
Book Review: Who Killed Amanda Palmer
OnIt’s not very often you find a coffee table book of nothing but staged photos of corpses. Or, rarer still, one corpse in many different settings. In fact, I’m not sure how many coffee tables Who Killed Amanda Palmer will be on…