The Big Bang Book Club meets Tuesday, March 24, at Grumpy's Bar & Grill to discuss Neal Shubin’s book Your Inner Fish. Why do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells the story of our bodies as you've never heard … Continue reading Something Fishy
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National Book Critic Circle Winners Announced
The National Book Critics Circle announced its 2009 award winners yesterday. They are Fiction: Roberto Bolaño, 2666 (FSG)General Nonfiction: Dexter Filkins, The Forever War (Knopf)Biography: Patrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul (Knopf)Autobiography: Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq … Continue reading National Book Critic Circle Winners Announced
Up, Up, and Away
Broadway.com reports that a stage version of Khaled Hosseini's hit novel The Kite Runner will premiere in San Jose on March 21. Hosseini lives in San Jose.Details are here.--David E
Musings from Magers and Quinn 