Armchair Travel

The Kyiv Post has umm... posted an article detailing the city's bookstores.I particularly want to visit this place: "Antresol, a restaurant/book cafe owned by the same people as Baboon and Kvartira Baboon is one of the coziest. In addition to a medium-priced menu, you’ll find shelves of classical, modern and foreign literature, which you can … Continue reading Armchair Travel

Air Fresheners

The radio show Fresh Air has just posted two good author interviews:Alan Greenspan talks about his latest book The Age of Turbulence. (Find it here.) Unlike Bloomberg.com, I didn't find him easy or breezy (see yesterday's posting on that, below), but he's very interesting nonetheless. Listen for the discussion of his romance with Ayn Rand … Continue reading Air Fresheners