Beatrice.com: May 2004 Archives

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May 31, 2004 - I Need to Go Lie Down Now
May 31, 2004 - More Gaps in My Reading List
May 31, 2004 - "It's kind of refreshing,
being able to have literary conversations..."
May 31, 2004 - Deborah Solomon Meets Her Match
May 31, 2004 - "Terry's Babies" Make National News
May 29, 2004 - This Be the Verse, Deal With It
May 29, 2004 - Rule of Four Author Profile, Take Two
May 29, 2004 - The State of Mayne
May 29, 2004 - Somebody, Somewhere, Must Have Liked Who Are We?
May 28, 2004 - A Little Late for National Poetry Month, Guys
May 28, 2004 - "Can your heart stand the shocking facts
of the true story of Neil Gaiman?"
May 28, 2004 - The Book's Called The Rope Eater,
And I'm Probably Remiss For Not Reading It Yet
May 27, 2004 - Roger W. Straus, Jr., 1917-2004
May 27, 2004 - Also 100 This Year: James T. Farrell
(just thought I'd mention it)
May 27, 2004 - Maybe Wolfe Needed to Lift Weights
May 27, 2004 - Maybe I Just Have Better Bookmarks
May 27, 2004 - Salon: New Media Breeding Ground for Old Media Writers
May 26, 2004 - Helen DeWitt Found
May 26, 2004 - Still Warm Corpse Serves as Plot Device
May 26, 2004 - Apparently, There Can Only Be One
May 26, 2004 - Not That Auctions Aren't Poetic
May 26, 2004 - Take It Into Town, Happy Happy
May 26, 2004 - I Swear It Wasn't Me
May 25, 2004 - "To implement this exit strategy,
we will have to practice running quickly..."
May 25, 2004 - Nicotine Rush or Eyesight? Decisions, Decisions
May 25, 2004 - The U.S. Conduit for Latin American Fiction
May 25, 2004 - "Move Him to the Back Before He Puts Someone's Eye Out"
May 24, 2004 - Ah, But What Do They Drink?
May 24, 2004 - It Seems the More They Gave, the Less She Got
May 24, 2004 - And Let's Not Even Discuss the Bad Grammar
May 24, 2004 - Wodehouse in the House
May 24, 2004 - Out on the Town
May 24, 2004 - You Can't Read the Same Book Twice
May 24, 2004 - Checking In With NYTBR One More Time
May 24, 2004 - Everybody Wants Something; They'll Never Give Up
May 22, 2004 - You Can't Say I Didn't Warn You...
May 22, 2004 - J'Accuse, as They Say in London
May 22, 2004 - Life Is a Pop of the Cherry When You're a Boy
May 21, 2004 - Loser Freaks Girl Out, Joins Unemployed Masses
May 21, 2004 - Could the New York Post Be More Hypocritical?
Of Course It Could
May 21, 2004 - Good Morning America, Sure,
But Where's Their ABC News Special Report?
May 21, 2004 - Hey, Here's a Timely Reference: Lauren Slater!
May 21, 2004 - It Does Seem Odd, But These Things Happen
May 21, 2004 - Maslin Watch: Bulking Up
May 20, 2004 - Kissinger Proved Right Once Again *
May 20, 2004 - When the Book Babes Talk War, What Is It Good For?
May 20, 2004 - History the Latest Thing
May 19, 2004 - Work in Translation
May 19, 2004 - Signs, Signs, Everywhere There's Signs
May 19, 2004 - Just Out of Curiosity,
Is Anybody Going To Stick Up for This Guy at Some Point?
May 19, 2004 - I Know the Word O'Brian Would Use Once
In Reference to This Situation
May 19, 2004 - Restraint Flickers Across Dan Brown's Brow
May 19, 2004 - It's Not British, It May Not Be Science Fiction
But It Deserves the Award, So There
May 19, 2004 - Nice Work If You Can Get It
May 19, 2004 - "A Working Stiff In a Low-Rent Genre"
May 18, 2004 - Viva Sea-Tac
May 18, 2004 - After Illuminatus!, All Other Apocalyptic Fiction
Seems Lame to Me, But the Public Begs to Differ
May 18, 2004 - Many of the High School's Graduates
Go On to SF's Academy of Art University
May 18, 2004 - Frenzy Among Book Collectors Expected
May 18, 2004 - Maslin Watch: Revisiting a Prior Thesis
May 18, 2004 - And What He Says is "Cthulhu F'tagn"
May 17, 2004 - Then Everybody Read It,
But How Many Picked Up On It?
May 17, 2004 - Even the Lit Mags Are Leaving New York...
May 17, 2004 - Native New Yorkers No Longer Interesting
May 17, 2004 - Avenue Victor Hugo Prepares for Closing
May 17, 2004 - It's Official: I Like the NYTBR's Direction
May 16, 2004 - Stories Whiz Right By Us
May 16, 2004 - Everybody Comes to Ricks
May 16, 2004 - Best American Sports Writing 2004 Editor, Take Note
May 15, 2004 - El Diablo Habla Espanol?
May 15, 2004 - Another Week, Another Sy Hersh Article...
May 14, 2004 - Just in Time for the Weekend...
May 14, 2004 - Political/Media Books the New Mother's Milk of the Glass Teat
May 14, 2004 - "We're really good at defending against yesterday's threats."
May 13, 2004 - Hey, Nineteen!
May 13, 2004 - And I Thought IWas Cool
When Lauren Slater Logged On to Complain About Me
May 13, 2004 - Horror Authors Rally Around Charles L. Grant
May 13, 2004 - Finally, Something Not Your Fault, Only Poynter's
May 13, 2004 - Come to Think of It, Also Your Fault
May 13, 2004 - It's Your Fault For Not Buying
Burning Down My Master's House
May 13, 2004 - They, Too, Were Part of the Greatest Generation
May 13, 2004 - More Gaping Holes in My Literacy Profile to Fill
May 13, 2004 - Maslin Watch: Things That Make You Go Hmm
May 12, 2004 - Lay Down in the Web of the Black Spider...
May 12, 2004 - New Gaitskill Essay in Sunday WaPo
May 12, 2004 - It's Time to Do It Right
(Now Doesn't That Make You Feel a Whole Lot Better?)
May 11, 2004 - And, One Might Add, Doing It Better
May 11, 2004 - What's the Big Deal? It's Not Like
She Called Him a Crypto-Fascist
May 11, 2004 - Dispatches from the Literary Circuit
May 11, 2004 - Yet Another "Hey, What's With All the Chick Lit?" Story
May 11, 2004 - Note to Self: France Joke Here (Jerry Lewis?)
May 11, 2004 - Quick, Somebody Call Elvis Costello
May 11, 2004 - None Dare Call It Conspiracy...
But Is It Art?
May 11, 2004 - Looking for Mr. Latte
May 10, 2004 - Speaking of Writers Who Hated
the Movie of the Book...
May 10, 2004 - But the Check Cleared, And That's What Counts
Or, This Wrinkle in Time, Can't Give It No Credit
May 10, 2004 - We Had to Find Something
to Do in Bars Once We Couldn't Smoke...
May 09, 2004 - Required Reading, Magazine Division
May 09, 2004 - Thomas Beller Goes Home Again...
May 09, 2004 - Pass Me Another Round, Barkeep
May 09, 2004 - Some American Publisher Better Scoop These Up
May 09, 2004 - It's a Michael Connelly Weekend
at the NYT
May 07, 2004 - Maslin Watch Averts Its Gaze Briefly
May 07, 2004 - 24-Hour Shopping in Rapture
May 07, 2004 - Interview Roundup
May 06, 2004 - And You Can Get an Article Out of It, Too
May 06, 2004 - Sure, I've Plugged It Before.
And I'll Do It Again in a Heartbeat
May 06, 2004 - Maslin Watch: Joshua Jackson, Call Your Agent
May 05, 2004 - In Which Our Left-Wing Bias Is Apparent
May 05, 2004 - Double Dortmunder
May 05, 2004 - That Oh-So-Liberal Media
May 05, 2004 - January in Early May
May 05, 2004 - René Burri, Magnum Photographer
May 05, 2004 - An Evening at Housing Works
May 04, 2004 - While the Baroque Cycle Spins Its Wheels...
May 04, 2004 - In Which, Perhaps, We Reveal
Victoria's Literary Secret
(or make a boldly wrong guess)
May 04, 2004 - Congratulations Are in Order
May 03, 2004 - The Secret of Hello Kitty's Success
May 03, 2004 - Previously, the Only Jane's I Read
Involved Military Aircraft
May 03, 2004 - Linguists on Literature
(Update of AM Entry)
May 03, 2004 - Maslin Watch: It Was a Very Good Day
May 03, 2004 - New Sterling: Not Sci-Fi, But Still Recognizably Sterling
May 02, 2004 - "The heart of every man in our platoon
must swell with pride..."
May 02, 2004 - So Much to Read...
May 01, 2004 - Now that National Poetry Month's Over...