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  • John Leonard

    John Leonard's success withe Book Review was also part of a golden age at the Times itself, when it took giant risks, like publishing the Pentagon Papers and exposing the role of the CIA in the culture in a series of ground breaking articles. Now, the entire paper seems tired, runnning on empty, at a time when there is a desperate need for ...
    Posted to Recycled by Richard Cummings on November 7, 2008

  • Books are for personal enjoyment, pleasure, self-education

    While I appreciate all the good books (including the Bible) I was encouraged or assigned to read by others, and while book reviews and reading lists - such as Great Books - are handy references, the joy of reading, for me, is in part wandering through a library or bookstore and picking a book at random to enjoy. One of the more useful advisories I ...
    Posted to Book Blitz by MichaelBernard1 on November 4, 2007

  • The Best Book of the Fall

    The problem with seduction is time. You have to figure out that you are attracted to somebody, plot a means of approach, work up your courage, and execute your plan in finest form before the object of your affection gets off the subway. You have to move. And when you see that special someone gathering to hand the purses, backpacks, and other ...
    Posted to Best of the Fray by august on October 31, 2007

  • The Best Book of Fall

    The problem with seduction is time. You have to figure out that you are attracted to somebody, plot a means of approach, work up your courage, and execute your plan in finest form before the object of your affection gets off the subway. You have to move. And when you see that special someone gathering to hand the purses, backpacks, and other ...
    Posted to Book Blitz by august on October 31, 2007

  • UKL on Ruth Franklin on Michael Chabon

    http://oddlots.digitalspace.net/cartoons/OnSeriousLiterature.pdf
    Posted to Books by wjtingle on July 19, 2007