Beatrice.com: January 2005 Archives

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January 31, 2005 - With a Dash of Dead Ringers For Texture
January 31, 2005 - The Brontes, However, Were Lousy Dating Gurus
January 31, 2005 - It's Enough to Make Richard Posner Dig Poetry
January 28, 2005 - I've Got a Good Guess Where It Takes Place
January 28, 2005 - Fill the Room with Your Intelligence!
January 28, 2005 - Put It in Reverse and Hit It!
January 27, 2005 -
January 27, 2005 - I Love an Awards Show
January 27, 2005 - Try to Continue the Pain and Degradation
January 26, 2005 - Translation: "Pictures of the Floating World"
January 26, 2005 - Literary Establishment Validates My Opinions
January 26, 2005 - It's Not As If She Couldn't See It Coming
January 25, 2005 - It Scarred Me For Life, In the Good Way
January 25, 2005 - I Could Make a Pun About Mansfield Park,
But Then Again, I Probably Shouldn't
January 25, 2005 - The Best $7 You'll Spend All Week
January 24, 2005 - The Two Faces of Beatrice
January 24, 2005 - From the Art Book Stack
January 23, 2005 - Snowbound
January 23, 2005 - Some Unlucky Copyeditor's Going to Get Can'd For This
January 23, 2005 - And Just What Did Ward Cleaver Do in Mayfield, Anyway?
January 22, 2005 - You Won't Want to Ask Her Out Bowling, Though
January 21, 2005 - I Say It's Spinach And I Say To Hell With It
January 21, 2005 - Since I Haven't Run a Sneak Preview in a While...
January 21, 2005 - More Authors Doing Their Bit for Tsunami Relief
January 20, 2005 - The Literary Ecosystem Is Not Without Its Parasites
January 20, 2005 - Gray Lady Steers Dangerously Close to Risque Humor
January 20, 2005 - Yes, I'm Aware It Was a Rhetorical Question
January 20, 2005 - I Know, I Said No More, But These Are Special
January 19, 2005 - Oh, and the Reading? That Went Great
January 19, 2005 - What Friendly Skies? That's the Other Guys
January 19, 2005 - This Means Something. This Is Important.
(As Roy Neary Might Say)
January 19, 2005 - Now I Feel Better About All the Bad Novels I've Ever Read
January 18, 2005 - Maybe Wolfe Should Have Tried Some Kmart Realism
January 18, 2005 - I Wish I Could Write Short Stories That Uninteresting
January 18, 2005 - Online Self-Publishing: It's a Good Thing!
January 17, 2005 - This Review Reads Like a Slap in the Face
(Boy, I Love It When the Headlines Write Themselves)
January 16, 2005 - Drink & Listen to Authors for a Good Cause
January 15, 2005 - I Get What I Want: In Less Than One Year!
January 15, 2005 - Guest Author: Michele Martinez
January 14, 2005 - Notebook Fetishists, Unite!
January 14, 2005 - "Stakhanovite"? When Did WSJ Become Red Channels?
January 14, 2005 - Not that Publishing Has the Government's Bribing Capacity...
January 14, 2005 - New Contest: Let's Title Her Next Book!
(A Projected Bio of Tennesse Williams...Maybe Some Day...)
January 14, 2005 - Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
January 14, 2005 - Bookbloggers Snap Fingers, Publishing Industry Jumps
January 14, 2005 - To Get All The Author Interviews,
You Gotta Go Past the Book Blogs
January 13, 2005 - Too Bad This Didn't Make It Into Her Tour Diary
January 13, 2005 - "Meditation Didn't Help," He Joked
January 13, 2005 - You Probably Won't Get a Novel as Good as Revolutionary Road This Way, Though
January 12, 2005 - Smash the Marketplace! (Or At Least Ding It Slightly)
January 12, 2005 - Maybe I Should Move The Scar Higher Up My To-Do List...
January 12, 2005 - Book Sale? Heck, We're Giving Them Away!
January 12, 2005 - Remember: I Don't Endorse the Sites, Just Link to 'Em
January 11, 2005 - Kinda Like Howard in Melvin & Howard
January 11, 2005 - Don't Misunderestimate This Fellow
January 11, 2005 - In Three More Months, Look for the NYT Story
January 11, 2005 - New Yorker Music Critic One of Those Bloggers
Who Posts Pictures of His Cats
January 11, 2005 - Cicero Apparently Anticipated von Sacher-Masoch
January 10, 2005 - So Is Robert Tanenbaum Our Best Judicial Novelist?
(And What Does Janet Maslin Think?)
January 10, 2005 - In Case Sam Tanenhaus Doesn't Read Gawker...
January 10, 2005 - Score One for the Book Bloggers...
No, Scratch That, This Victory Is All Her Own
January 10, 2005 - The Writing's Still the Hard Part, Though
January 10, 2005 - More About Charles D'Ambrosio
January 10, 2005 - Fox Executives Should Wear Tinfoil Hats Around This Guy
January 07, 2005 - For This, I Freely Admit I May Be Receiving Payola,
Though the Matter Is Open to Interpretation
January 07, 2005 - Get the Interns to Run Google Searches If Need Be
January 07, 2005 - The Literary Value Nearly Approaches the Moral Value
January 06, 2005 - For Those of You For Whom My Recommendation Alone Is Insufficient
January 06, 2005 - This Regime Change, I Predict, Will Be Successful
January 06, 2005 - As Stan Lee Would Say, Excelsior!
January 06, 2005 - For a Taste of Your Whiskey, I'll Give You Some Advice
January 05, 2005 - Guy Davenport, 1927-2005
January 05, 2005 - One Last Sontag Recap, Plus More on Eisner
(A Juxtaposition We Think She Would Have Dug, And Maybe Him, Too)
January 05, 2005 - Oh Boy, Another Copy of The Da Vinci Code. Thanks...
January 05, 2005 - Next, I'll Use My Powers to Bring Back LAX
January 05, 2005 - This Is Why I Became a Writer: To Go Drinking With Writers
January 04, 2005 - I Blame Elton John. It's Easy, and It's Fun.
January 04, 2005 - Will Eisner, 1917-2005
January 04, 2005 - Maybe I Should Invite Her and Mike Lupica for Coffee
January 04, 2005 - Meet the 21st Century's First Dynasty of Letters
January 04, 2005 - Tell Your Boss You Need to Listen As Important Research
January 04, 2005 - And If It Includes a Defense of Blogs, You Have My Thanks
January 04, 2005 - I'd Love to Hear Charles de Lint's Thoughts, Too...
January 03, 2005 - Welcome, Citizens of Denver!
January 03, 2005 - Screw-ed-Up Priorities
January 03, 2005 - "Authors from Hell" Find a Guardian Angel
January 02, 2005 - In a Previous Incarnation, I Was the Shell Answer Man
January 02, 2005 - The Universe Is Shaped Exactly Like the Earth