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- October 31, 2004 -
Blah Blah Bloggers
- October 29, 2004 -
"All that Passable Meant to Me"
- October 29, 2004 -
Shades of Charles McCarry, Even!
- October 29, 2004 -
Toronto: Our New Hub for Author Interviews
- October 29, 2004 -
Jim Bunning Nominated for Hall of Shame?
- October 29, 2004 -
If You Haven't Downloaded Eastern Standard Tribe Yet,
Do It Now(Even if You "Don't Like Science Fiction")
- October 29, 2004 -
Will the Last Book To Be Sold at Wal-Mart
Please Bring the Flag?
- October 28, 2004 -
Spinoza Meets Old Friends
- October 27, 2004 -
To Hell With Babe Ruth
- October 27, 2004 -
No Live Report, But a Strong Recommendation
- October 27, 2004 -
Meet Your National Book Award Fiction Nominees
- October 26, 2004 -
Interview Roundup: Who Do You Love?
- October 26, 2004 -
Back with Black (and Wunderlich)
- October 25, 2004 -
Somebody Stick Up for the NBA Nominees, Please
- October 25, 2004 -
Bloggers/Newspapers Coming Into Sync
- October 23, 2004 -
Guest Author: Damian McNicholl
- October 23, 2004 -
Nursing a Cherished Myth
- October 23, 2004 -
Going for Baroque
- October 22, 2004 -
At Least When the Bloggers Get Out Their Knives,
He Can Tell Them If They're Using the Wrong Ones
- October 22, 2004 -
A New Twist to the Page Six/HarperCollins Collusion
- October 22, 2004 -
In Related Developments, Beatrice Endorses John Kerry
- October 21, 2004 -
I Never Win the Oscar Pool, Either
- October 21, 2004 -
No Comment, Really, I Just Want to Linger Over This
- October 21, 2004 -
Soft Skull Night at Happy Ending
- October 21, 2004 -
One of the Best Books I've Read All Year...
- October 20, 2004 -
He Came Dancing Across the Water, Kertész, Kertész
- October 19, 2004 -
Alan Hollinghurst Wins Man Booker Prize
- October 19, 2004 -
Roger Angell Gets Out Just in Time to See Sox Rally
- October 19, 2004 -
Interview Roundup: From Northern California to Baghdad
- October 19, 2004 -
Speaking of Will Christopher Baer...
- October 18, 2004 -
National Book Awards Apparently Not a Popularity Contest
NOW UPDATED FOR New Yorker COMMENTARY
- October 18, 2004 -
For Boston, For Boston, Thy Glory Is Our Own
- October 18, 2004 -
If They're "On Message," Make the Message Irrelevant
- October 17, 2004 -
1971: A Banner Year for Pornography
- October 17, 2004 -
How to Talk Trash About Liberals (If You Must)
- October 17, 2004 -
Matsui Ruins Stephen King's Saturday
And the Ending of His Baseball Book (Maybe)
- October 16, 2004 -
A Double Shot of 5 Questions
- October 16, 2004 -
Who IS "Your Typical Dirty-Book Writer," Chip?
- October 14, 2004 -
I Have Met My Match at Celebrity Impressions
- October 14, 2004 -
Another Hundred People Just Started Blogs
- October 14, 2004 -
Personally, I Prefer the Sobriquet "Riot Nrrd"
- October 13, 2004 -
Can You Stand Yet Another Philip Roth Post?
- October 13, 2004 -
DATELINE LOS...Oh, Heck, This Is Goofy, Isn't It?
- October 13, 2004 -
DATELINE LOS ANGELES: Some Guys Get All the Luck
- October 12, 2004 -
DATELINE LOS ANGELES: Hollywood Novels, Take One
- October 12, 2004 -
DATELINE LOS ANGELES: Feel My Roth
- October 12, 2004 -
The Black Non-Knight
- October 11, 2004 -
Talk About Your Even Tone and Open Mind
- October 11, 2004 -
Which Side Are You On?
- October 11, 2004 -
Stanley Crouch Says Philip Roth Ignores Black People
- October 11, 2004 -
NYC Events I Can't Attend But You Can and Should
- October 10, 2004 -
Some Folks Are Born Made to Wave the Flag
- October 10, 2004 -
My Blog, My Rules: Deal With It;
or, How To Get Your Comments Taken Seriously
- October 10, 2004 -
Jacques Derrida, 1930-2004
- October 10, 2004 -
Yo, Adrian!
- October 10, 2004 -
The Essay Beatrice Readers Demanded to See!
- October 10, 2004 -
Credit Where Credit Is Due
- October 09, 2004 -
There's a "Tiny Social Transactions" Joke Here,
But It's the Weekend & I'm Too Lazy
- October 09, 2004 -
And Now, Back to Happier Subjects
- October 08, 2004 -
Crouch's Interviewer Not Happy with Beatrice, Either
- October 08, 2004 -
Hellman-McCarthy, Vidal-Buckley, and Now...
Stanley Crouch and Ron Hogan?
- October 08, 2004 -
Gaelic Pronunciation Guide: call-um toe-BEEN
- October 08, 2004 -
"Ain't Nothing But a Hooker Party"
- October 08, 2004 -
Poetry Foundation Uses Megawealth to Emulate Corporate Bloat
- October 07, 2004 -
Frank Discussion
- October 07, 2004 -
Ah, the Halcyon Days of 2000 and 2001
- October 07, 2004 -
Once Again, Nobel Committee Underscores My Limited Reading
- October 07, 2004 -
Wait, What's Business Week Doing Recommending Sci-Fi?
- October 07, 2004 -
The All-New England Interview Roundup
- October 07, 2004 -
There Is No Map to Hume and Behavior...
(Yes, That Is The Worst Pun to Headline Here)
- October 07, 2004 -
Great Readings Often Happen By Chancellors
- October 06, 2004 -
There's a Lesson in This For Anne Rice Somewhere
- October 06, 2004 -
Far Out, Man
- October 06, 2004 -
As "Nearer My God to Thee" Plays Softly in the Background...?
(OK, OK, It's Not That Bad)
- October 05, 2004 -
But What Do the Book Babes Think of the New NYTBR?
- October 05, 2004 -
Apparently, It's Not a Pink Floyd Cover Band
- October 04, 2004 -
Paging Paul Maher's Publicist: It's Intervention Time
- October 04, 2004 -
Paul Maher Sticks The Foot He Didn't Shoot Last Time
Deep, Deep Into His Mouth
- October 04, 2004 -
NYT Sunday Magazine Gets a Happy Ending
- October 04, 2004 -
I Take the Cue from Certain People I Know
- October 04, 2004 -
Revisiting the Butt of Beatrice's Longest-Running Gag
- October 04, 2004 -
Sam Fuller, A Third Face
- October 03, 2004 -
New York Is Book Country
- October 03, 2004 -
And In Another Part of Book Country...
- October 02, 2004 -
"What gets left of a man amounts
to a part. To his spoken part. To a part of speech."
- October 02, 2004 -
Swing Kids Get Nudge from Literary Community
- October 02, 2004 -
Reinforcing the Accolades for My Peers
- October 02, 2004 -
Who Knows, Hitchens Might Even Be There
- October 02, 2004 -
The Venue Sounds Like a Video Game,
But the Prose Was Strictly Literary
- October 01, 2004 -
All the Chick Lit You Can Handle
- October 01, 2004 -
Information Wants to Be Free, But I Wouldn't Refuse a Commission
- October 01, 2004 -
Whoever She Is, She Outwrites Jane Austen Doe
- October 01, 2004 -
In My Head, Crow and Tom Cried, "MITCHELL!"