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I actually had two reviews appear on Sunday, one in Pennsylvania and one in Texas. I feel like I’m going coast-to-coast, almost. This one is about Matthew Flaming’s The Kingdom of Ohio, which appeared in the Dallas Morning News. As … Continue reading →

This review appeared in print yesterday. I did it as a favor for a Centre County Reads project, that chose Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon as their 2010 book. It’s a hardboiled, gin-joint read, fun in part to glimpse the … Continue reading →

So I was offline for almost a month, spending the holidays in Colorado, no landline phone, no Wifi, no email, no mornings spent perusing The Daily Mail or any other mildly amusing waste of time. The air tasted cleaner. I … Continue reading →

So this is the best McCarthy interview I’ve ever read, more revealing than the one he did years ago in the New York Times to promote All the Pretty Horses: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html I like this quote: “I have a great sympathy … Continue reading →

Postcards from the Heartland: My second home (but first in my heart) lies in Custer County, Colorado, near the town of Westcliffe in a remote and lovely valley between two mountain ridges, the Sangre de Cristo and the Wet Mountains, … Continue reading →

Some nuggets of interest (such as that he has three unpublished book mss) in this NY Times piece about Cormac McCarthy donating his typewriter for auction.  UPDATE: The typewriter sold for over ten times its estimated value, at $254K:

I’ve had Bill McKibben’s Deep Economy (2007) on my bookshelf for a year and now that I’ve finally got around to reading it, I regret the long delay. In a sea of admirable but gloomy titles, such as McKibben’s own … Continue reading →

So I haven’t been posting much lately, my time being usurped with building a wicked TinkerToy airplane for my daughter and finishing a novel that seems unending, but here’s a recent struggle with the encroaching social network world: A couple … Continue reading →

I don’t blog much about TV, in part because it seems I’m so busy that I don’t watch as much tube as I did in past, nonchildcare years. But I’m a big fan of Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, which … Continue reading →

In time for Halloween—Here’s the url to my review of Peter Ackroyd’s new novel, The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, published yesterday in the Dallas Morning News: www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/books/stories/DN-bk_frankenstein_1025gd.ART.State.Edition1.4bcf98e.html What I mentioned only obliquely: When the “monster” awakens, he immediately begins, um, … Continue reading →