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Reading Recommendations from Michael Pollan
Originally posted on BookPeople:
Last night, we were lucky enough to have Michael Pollan discussing and signing his latest book, Cooked, at the store. A big thanks to the folks who came out. We filled chairs we didn’t even know we had, not to mention the floorspace, nooks, and crannies all over our second floor.…
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Originally posted on johntuckermustlive:
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Seeing Things
Originally posted on The New Psalmanazar:
Ever since the first two protozoa were joined in holy matrimony, husbands have been amazing (and not infrequently aggravating) their wives with their talent for looking directly at an object and yet failing to see it. I know that my own gifts in this department are remarkable. Certainly it was…
Stand Up Sit Down Book Club: FLIP by Kevin Cook
Originally posted on BookPeople:
~ post by Steve(n)After reading all about the inimitable Flip Wilson in Kevin Cook’s astonishing new biography Flip, the Stand Up Sit Down book club foolhardily decided to travel through history, collecting comedy giants from the past, present, and future to make their next meeting the stuff of legend. Unfortunately, this…
10 Things I Learned in Graduate School (Year One)
Originally posted on Highest Form of Whit:
10. Graduate programs really, really differ depending on what your focus is. My biffle Batman had 30 page finals and conferences to attend and research to do and calculations to run. Me? Oh, I ate dinner with my classmates and we talked about our writing a little bit.…
The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison
Originally posted on Blogging for a Good Book:
Maia Drazhar is an 18-year-old half-elf, half-goblin prince, living in exile with his embittered guardian, when a zeppelin accident (yes, the elves have zeppelins) takes out most of the royal line. Suddenly Maia is Emperor of the Elflands. As the fourth son of an unfavored and long-dead…
Darkroomless
Originally posted on joebeckerphoto:
An oldie but a goodie, Devils Garden in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah; shot on film and processed in my wet darkroom. My computer is down now, going through an upgrade. So for the next week or so, I am without a darkroom. I’m wondering how many of you…
Book review: ‘The Heiresses’ by Sara Shepard
Originally posted on write meg!:
In the wilds of Manhattan are four wealthy women — all heiresses to the sizable Saybrook diamond fortune. When their grandfather returned from World War II with a rare, valuable gem, he couldn’t have known how his empire would expand . . . or how his granddaughters would someday work…
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