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Some nuggets of interest (such as that he has three unpublished book mss) in this NY Times piece about Cormac McCarthy donating his typewriter for auction.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 →

The Hidden Jesus   The electrician did not want to speak. He stared at the ceiling and scratched his muscled forearm, on which was tattooed the name Sarah, with a circle/bar over it. He was here to avoid jail time … Continue reading →

Here’s a url to my review of Victor Lodato’s debut novel, Mathilda Savitch, which appears today in the Dallas Morning News: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/books/stories/DN-bk_mathilda_1018gd.ART.State.Edition1.4bb34ed.html It’s definitely a “voice” novel, in that not a great deal happens, but her voice is charming and … Continue reading →

I’m glad to see that Pete Dexter’s new novel, Spooner, is getting much attention. He’s one of our best. Here’s an article in the NY Times that makes Dexter sound like a likable guy: www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/books/14dexter.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=books The elephant novel-in-progress sounds good, … Continue reading →

So I feel as clueless as George H.W. Bush marveling at bar codes in the supermarket, but I’ve just seen the trailer for the Coen Brothers new film, A Serious Man, and it looks seriously good: www.moviefone.com/movie/a-serious-man/29878/video/a-serious-man-trailer-no-1/32367210001 Their last film, … Continue reading →

I’ve never thought twice about Gore Vidal. No matter how many times the East Coast literary hype machine tells me he’s an important writer, he’s always seemed a bit of a dinosaur from the Kennedy years. (It’s a tagline with … Continue reading →