January 2012
Blogs to Read in 2012 →
Jan 4th
This Week's Interesting Music Releases - January... →
Jan 2nd
Favorite Graphic Novels of 2011 →
Jan 1st
December 2011
Atomic Books Comics Preview - December 28th, 2011 →
Dec 29th
Online "Best Books of 2011" Lists Update -... →
Dec 27th
Shorties (Junot Diaz, Cat Power, and more) →
Dec 26th
Daily Downloads (The National, The War on Drugs,... →
Dec 25th
2011 Year-End Online Music Lists Update - December... →
Dec 24th
2011 Year-End Online Music Lists Update - December... →
Dec 23rd
William Faulkner’s hot toddy recipe →
Twitter was so excited about William Faulkner’s mint julep yesterday that it seemed wrong, especially at the holidays, to withhold his cure for anything from “a bad spill from a…
Dec 22nd
2011 Year-End Online Music Lists Update - December... →
Dec 21st
2011 Year-End Online Music Lists Update - December... →
Dec 17th
2011 Year-End Online Music Lists Update - December... →
Dec 16th
Favorite Short Story Collections of 2011 →
Dec 15th
Favorite Novels of 2011 →
Dec 14th
When the place outlives the preaching →
The Crystal Cathedral of “Hour of Power” fame is the subject of my latest New York Times Magazine mini-column. Not so long ago the most lavish symbol of U.S. Protestantism, the…
Dec 13th
LHB Weekly Wrap-Up - December 11th →
Dec 12th
Shorties (Margaret Atwood, The Best Books About... →
Dec 11th
Favorite Nonfiction of 2011 →
Dec 10th
2011 Year-End Online Music Lists Update - December... →
Dec 9th
2011 Year-End Online Music Lists Update - December... →
Dec 8th
2011 Year-End Online Music Lists Update - December... →
Dec 7th
Underminer poet husband →
Ted Hughes once wrote a letter to his sister about Sylvia Plath’s “good fortune” in selling “a long rather bad poem” to The Atlantic, “one of the Mags in America.” (To be fair, Hughes generally…
Dec 1st
Review and New Fiction: Michael Connelly’s The... →
My review of Michael Connelly‘s new Harry Bosch novel, The Drop, appears in today’s Washington Post—a short review in this case, and given the surprising breadth and depth of the…
Dec 1st
November 2011
2011 Year-End Online Music Lists Update - November... →
Nov 30th
2011 Year-End Online Music Lists Update - November... →
Nov 28th
Contest - Win Stephen King's' Novel "11/22/63" and... →
Nov 27th
Online "Best Books of 2011" Lists Update -... →
Nov 26th
2011 Year-End Online Music Lists Update - November... →
Nov 25th
Online "Best Books of 2011" Lists Update -... →
Nov 23rd
Library borrowers’ habits a century ago →
What Middletown Read tracks borrowing records of Muncie Public Library patrons from 1891 to 1902 and shows how library use is not a lonely act but “part of the complex story of the social nature…
Nov 22nd
LHB Weekly Wrap-Up - November 20th →
Nov 21st
Online "Best Books of 2011" Lists Update -... →
Nov 19th
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Nov 18th
Book Notes - Leora Skolkin-Smith "Hystera" →
Nov 17th
Online "Best Books of 2011" Lists Update -... →
Nov 15th
Gaudí day job fantasies →
My second New York Times Mag mini-column is on the futuristic skyscraper Antoni Gaudí designed in 1908 for what is now Ground Zero. His Hotel Attraction (pictured) would be a lot…
Nov 15th
Online "Best Books of 2011" Lists Update -... →
Nov 15th
LHB Weekly Wrap-Up - November 13th →
Nov 14th
David Berman blogs, y’all →
Exciting: Poet and Silver Jews singer/songwriter/mastermind David Berman has a blog, Menthol Mountains, where he’s pondering “the phony gulp,” hooked-up verse, and other things. (Thanks,…
Nov 14th
Daily Downloads (My Morning Jacket and Matt Bauer... →
Nov 13th
Contest - Win Bill Clinton's New Book "Back to... →
Nov 13th
On wrong books for traveling, and fated new ones →
“There is something charmingly serendipitous about the English books you find in strange countries.”
Nov 12th
Book Notes - Ben Ehrenreich ("Ether") →
Nov 11th
Outtakes from my talk with Susan Miller →
The first installment of my new microcolumn, “The Historical Record,” ran in The New York Times Magazine on Sunday alongside some other quickies, including Lizzie Skurnick’s brilliant…
Nov 11th
Book Notes - Courtney E. Smith ("Record Collecting... →
Nov 10th
OWS + Bartelby →
Housing Works Bookstore has organized a group reading of Melville’s “Bartelby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” in support of Occupy Wall Street tomorrow. Come join us if you’re free.
Nov 10th
Atomic Books Comics Preview - November 2nd, 2011 →
Nov 10th
Online "Best Books of 2011" Lists Update -... →
Nov 9th
Book Notes - Steve Almond ("God Bless America") →
Nov 8th