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Book Review: Requiem for New Orleans by Mike Sharpe
Sharpe believes the model of a requiem mass is appropriate for a disaster in which the "biblical proportions are manifest".
Read More »Please Send Me To My Room, Mom, So I Can Read
Sharing the joy of a great book is surely one of life’s thrills.
Read More »Book Review: Here Comes the Sun by Joshua M. Greene
A fellow Hare Krishna devotee explores the role and impact of George Harrison's spiritual quest on his life and music.
Read More »Book Review: Touched By Venom by Janine Cross
I'm already looking forward to the second book in the Dragon Temple Saga based on what I found in the first book.
Read More »Kinky Friedman: Singer-Songwriter-Novelist, Governor?
Kinky deserves to be on the ballot this November for the Texas governor's mansion.
Read More »NaNoWriMo Notes 18: Originality Above All
"every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself, and the artist who plays that country false has committed suicide..."
Read More »Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist Announced
One debut novelist, Carrie Tiffany, joins Sarah Waters, Zadie Smith, Nicole Krauss, Ali Smith, and Hilary Mantel in the contest for the 11th award.
Read More »New York City’s Tribeca Film Festival Opens with 9/11 Film
Starting off the Tribeca Film Festival with United 93 was the right thing to do and now is the right time to do it.
Read More »Book Review: A Year in the World – Journeys of a Passionate Traveller by Frances Mayes
The only passion is for the husband with whom she travels. They sweep around the Mediterranean like a couple cuddling in their living room.
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