This is why I love London's Guardian newspaper: they recently posted an entire article devoted to the ten most-often-thrown-away books in Britain's Travelodge hotels.Topping the list is The Blair Years, the summer's hot tell-all memoir by the former Prime Minister's Karl Rove equivalent. The book was much talked about, but just as widely panned. If … Continue reading What Tossers Are Reading This Summer
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"Your monument shall be my gentle verse"
After tackling the subject of, well, everything, Bill Bryson will be back this fall with a book on a seemingly simpler subject: William Shakespeare. But it's not as easy a topic as you might think. Scholars know surprisingly little about the bard.Bryson writes, "We don’t know exactly how many plays he wrote or in what … Continue reading "Your monument shall be my gentle verse"
What’s Cooking
Bill Buford will be on Minnesota Public Radio's "Midmorning" show Monday morning at 10am Central time. You will be able to hear the show or find the archived broadcast on their website.Buford, a one-time fiction editor a the New Yorker, quit his job to learn the cooking trade under various chefs, starting with Mario Batali. … Continue reading What’s Cooking
Musings from Magers and Quinn 