December 2010
Recommendation: Oxford American’s 12th Annual... →
Apart from Metro itself, one of my favorite magazines is undoubtedly The Oxford American — and the highpoint of the year for The OA is undoubtedly its annual music issue. (I’m…
Daily Downloads (Free and Legal Albums, Jeff... →
Atomic Books Comics Preview - December 29th, 2010 →
In conversation with Misha Angrist →
On Monday, 1/10, I’ll be talking with my friend Misha Angrist about DNA research, ancestry, and his fascinating new book, Here is a Human Being at the Dawn of Personal Genomics, at …
Shorties (Best Fictional Hangovers, Charles... →
Fiction Workshop in Linked Short Stories →
Shorties (Holiday Cover Songs, Most Anticipated... →
2010 Online Year-End Music Lists Update - December... →
Online "Best Books of 2010" List Updates -... →
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2010 Online Year-End Music Lists Update - December... →
Recommendations: Christmas Mysteries →
My own primary interests follow two paths: Southern literature on the one hand, building off of my own roots as a native North Carolinian, and then crime fiction, a love that first began in my…
Shorties (Liz Phair, David Lynch, and more) →
Daily Downloads (Wye Oak, Stornoway, and more) →
Shorties (Warpaint, Gary Shteyngart, and more) →
Online "Best Books of 2010" List Updates -... →
Book Notes - Rob Roberge ("Working Backwards from... →
2010 Online Year-End Music Lists Update - December... →
Daily Downloads (Jeff Tweedy, Shearwater, and... →
Shorties (The Decemberists, Emma Donoghue, and... →
2010 Online Year-End Music Lists Update - December... →
Online "Best Books of 2010" List Updates -... →
Atomic Books Comics Preview - December 8th, 2010 →
Favorite Short Story Collections of 2010 →
My favorite books, and other highlights, of 2010 →
My favorite newish book of the year is (surprise) the Autobiography of Mark Twain, and I wrote about it for Salon, where there are also best of 2010 contributions from my…
Shorties (Free Christmas MP3s, Top Female... →
Daily Downloads (Richard Ashcroft, The Loveable... →
Try It Before You Buy It - December 7, 2010 Music... →
Online "Best Books of 2010" List Updates -... →
Favorite Nonfiction of 2010 →
2010 Online Year-End Music Lists Update - December... →
Shorties (Daft Punk's Tron Legacy Soundtrack,... →
Daily Downloads (Young Galaxy, Eulogies, and more) →
This Week's Interesting Music Releases - December... →
This Week's Interesting DVD Releases - December 7,... →
2010 Online Year-End Music Lists Update - December... →
Contest - Win a Signed Copy of China Mieville's... →
Shorties (Spoon, Best & Worst-Designed Editions of... →
Favorite Novels of 2010 →
Online "Best Books of 2010" List Updates -... →
Shorties (Leslie Feist, Saul Bellow, and more) →
50 Down, 2 To Go "A Visit from the Goon Squad" (52... →
Daily Downloads (Ween, Steve Wynn, and more, and... →
Daily Downloads (Sky Larkin, The Grateful Dead,... →
2010 Online Year-End Music Lists Update - December... →
Online "Best Books of 2010" List Updates -... →
LHB Weekly Wrap-Up: December 5th →
Franzen’s Paris Review interview →
“The material was so hot that it deformed the writing whenever I came at it directly.” The Paris Review excerpts parts of its interview with Jonathan Franzen.