Name: Gordon Hauptfleisch
Dateline: Southern California
Weblog: blogcritics.org/writer/gordon_hauptfleisch
Articles: 246
First Published: Thursday, November 10, 2005
Last Published: Thursday, July 24, 2008
Gordon Hauptfleisch, alias Neanderthal Hawthorne, is a Blogcritics Books Editor, free lance writer, and book reviewer for the San Diego Union Tribune. He's also an enigmatic visionary of unfathomable secrets and many a guise, or at least he plays one in his delusions of grandeur. His mandate also includes weird bugs.
In a previous life he was a leprous horse thief. Currently listing articles 246-201:
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Liner Notables: Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks— "He's as personal and as universal as Yeats or Blake; speaking for himself, risking that dangerous opening of the veins, he speaks for us all."
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of July 21, 2008— Janis Ian, A New Zealand Story, The Rise and Fall of IG Farben, Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization, Mao's Last Dancer...
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Book Review: Philip K. Dick - Five Novels of the 1960s and ‘70s by Philip K. Dick, Jonathan Lethem (Editor) — "I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind…”
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction Books for the Week of July 14, 2008— Madonna: Ciccone rivalry rears an ugly read, Notes of an American Tomato Farmer, Lang Lang's 'Story,' 'Lessons' from Ward Connerly, Research Design, Web Tools...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction Books for the Week of July 07, 2008— The CIA, Ballroom Dancing, Black Religion, Dana and Christopher Reeve, L. M. Montgomery, Ben J. Wattenberg, Julia Reed, "Bloody Mary"...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction Books for the Week of June 30, 2008— Old Blood and Guts, The Olympics That Changed the World, The Dancer Within, The Simple Life, Sichan Siv...
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Pulp Pages: "About Kid Deth" by Raoul Whitfield— “Like hell — they’ll get me!” he breathed.
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction Books for the Week of June 23, 2008— Barbara Ehrenreich, Dick Morris, Louis XIV, Stuntmen, Lee Morgan, Tomboys, Hidden Codes, Evolution, Old Beijing, Forgers, Dancers, Elephants...
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Vinyl Tap: The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk— This isn’t your mother’s Psychedelic Furs.
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction For the Week of June 9, 2008— Doris Day, Kathryn Harrison, Pete Sampras, Grandmaster Flash, Karl Rove, Douglas J. Preston, Oscar de la Hoya, Glenn Gould, Meredith Norton, and Peter M. Senge.
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Book Review: Serpent's Kiss (Rogue Angel, Book 10) by Alex Archer (Mel Odom)— Cover to cover action-adventure escapist fare. Cue the pirates, sharks, and cannibals!
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Book Review: The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie— In Rushdie’s tenth novel, a magical realist every-which-way-but-lucid fever dream, sixteenth-century Renaissance Florence and Mughal India's cultural zenith find a link in a "hidden princess."
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Music Review: Elvis Costello and the Imposters - Momofuku— "'Well Momofuku told me, 'Son you gotta make some money / If you want to use the car to go ridin' next Sunday.'" --"Summertime Blues,
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Music Review: The Kooks - Konk— You can play the connect-the-pop/rock-dots, but the Kooks’ hooks are impressive and infectious on their own. An exhilarating album.
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Vinyl Tap: The Replacements - Let It Be— Accept no substitutes. The Replacements' Let It Be is a roarin’ little record I want my turntable to play and play again.
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Vinyl Tap: Jo Jo Gunne— From the primordial mist, in the land where Foghatsaurus and Grand Funk Triceratops roamed, the mighty Jo Jo Gunne emerged...
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Liner Notables: Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Armed Forces, 2002 Rhino Edition— "The highly charged language...is full of gimmicks and almost overpowers some songs with paradoxes and subverted cliches piling up into private and secret meanings."
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Pulp Pages: "The Duchess Pulls a Fast One" by Whitman Chambers — “The Duchess,” a reporter for The Sun, could “produce hunches faster than a cigarette machine turns out coffin nails.”
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Book Review: Creators - From Chaucer and Dürer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Johnson— "It is frightening to enter your workroom early in the morning and face an empty canvas, a blank sheet of paper, or a score sheet..."
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Music Review: Ray Davies - Working Man’s Café— "I knew the face but could not tell / Why I couldn't recognise myself... / I'm the imaginary man..."
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Vinyl Tap: The Ventures - Walk Don't Run— Something Ventured, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gained.
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Book Review: The Ghost Map - The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic, and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson— "A story with four protagonists: a deadly bacterium, a vast city and two gifted but very different men.”
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Vinyl Tap: Cindy Lee Berryhill - Garage Orchestra— Garage Orchestra’s ramshackle Pet Sounds-and-kettle drums core is complemented with Cindy Lee Berryhill’s loosey-goosey vocals and upfront guitar.
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of February 17, 2008— Deepak Chopra, Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb, Lisa Scottoline, Michael Palmer, Elizabeth Moon, Jacqueline Winspear...
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Book Review: His Illegal Self by Peter Carey— The life of an 'SDS Goddess' and a 7-year old boy is turned further upside down when they go down under and underground.
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of February 10, 2008— Benazir Bhutto, Susan Jacoby's Age of American Unreason, Michael Scheuer's Marching Toward Hell; Grimes, Higgins, Toltz, McDaniel, Millhauser, Divakaruni, Baxter, Berenson...
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of January 27, 2008— FICTION: Grisham, Krentz, Banks; All Shall Be Well, And All Shall Be Well, And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well. NONFICTION: Stranger than Fiction.
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Pulp Pages: "Pigeon Blood" by Paul Cain— Though his output was small, Paul Cain reached a “high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner,” says Raymond Chandler.
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of January 20, 2008— Kinsella, King, Cornwell, Delinsky, Martin, Lescroart, Schwartz; plus the Race Card, the Electronic Mob, Reflections on Hillary Clinton, Predictions from the Experts...
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of January 13, 2008— Stephen King, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Newt Gingrich, Tom Cruise, Stuart Woods, Delinsky, Bernhardt, Cornwell, Corporate Whistleblower, Whyte, Bush Tragedy...
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Liner Notables: B.B. King - Live in Cook County Jail— "...a manifestation of human generosity and beauty on B.B.’s part and the raw appreciation of 2,117 of his most ardent fans.”
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of January 6, 2008— Roddy Doyle, Janet Evanovich, Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism, Madeleine Albright and Bill Woodward's Memo to the President-Elect, Kelly Corrigan, Bernhard Schlink, Sue Miller...
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of December 23, 2007— It's uncanny: On Christmas morning you can tell a book by its cover. Bookstores have new gifts this week. Be canny and make an exchange.
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Vinyl Tap: My Top Ten Album Reissues for 2007— Zevon on Fire, Twilley Sincerely, Lofgrenesque, Pretenders Crawl, Costello Aims, HaveWilbury-WillTravel, U2 up a Tree, ELO out of the Blue, Secondhand Magazine, Faces OohLaLa!
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Book Review: Bamboo - Essays and Criticism by William Boyd— An anthology of non-fiction, from Auden to Vonnegut, the Sausage Fly to Minicabs, by the sardonic historian of 20th-century life and Englishness under pressure.
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The Early Word: New Books For The Weeks Of December 9 & 16, 2007— Condoleezza Rice, George H.W. Bush, Steve Berry, Cecelia Ahern, J.D. Robb, Chris Ware, Tao Te Ching, World War II, Why Women Wear What They Wear...
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Book Review: The Beautiful Cigar Girl - Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder by Daniel Stashower— Life is what happens when you’re busy pitching other plot proposals. As Edgar Allan Poe was to find out with "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt"...
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of December 2, 2007— With most of the new books in the stores by now, it's all-fiction slim pickin's this week: Sue Grafton, Jim Butcher, Harry Turtledove.
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Vinyl Tap: Bing Crosby - Hey Jude/Hey Bing!— When der Bingle covered das Beatles in 1969, he went through the motions with insouciance intact and ascot scarcely askew.
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of November 25, 2007— Satiety’s just a page away: Koontz, Buchanan, Gabaldon, Dietz, Enright, Sandra Brown, George R.R. Martin, David Drake... 'Tis just as good to get.
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of November 18, 2007— Steve Martin, Glenn Beck. Plus Anna Quindlen writes a 'Good Dog. Who Is Probably Still Staying. That's How Good He Is. Book.'
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of November 11, 2007— This week featuring "The Letters of Noel Coward: Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck."
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Pulp Pages: "Hell's Pay Check" by Frederick Nebel— Cardigan lowered his gun. "It’s damned funny that I can’t get a night’s sleep without you guys prowling around here like correspondence-school detectives."
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of November 4, 2007— Lou Dobbs, 'Best Music Writing', Brokaw, Borat, Baldacci, Cussler, Iles, Frank McCourt, J.D. Robb, Raymond Chandler, Kenneth R. Timmerman, Joe McCarthy, NYSE, Mitfords, Robot Love...
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Vinyl Tap: House of Freaks - Tantilla— The brutal slaying of Bryan Harvey, along his family, silenced an inspired, vital voice who could talk shop like he's speaking in tongues.
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The Early Word - Nonfiction: New Books For The Week Of October 28, 2007— American Creation, Onion's Atlas, Ronnie Wood, Beatles' Second Album, Gerald Ford, Steve Irwin, Gram Parsons, Umberto Eco, Bette Davis, Once Upon A, Umm...
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