We recently received a large quantity of books from the for Dummies series. I'm not suggesting you need one of these for yourself, but we all have dummies in our lives and we all have to buy them gifts. Maybe some dimbulb you know wants to know more about champagne or cryptography or classical music. … Continue reading Books… for Dummies
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Edmund White recalls Nabokov imitating Borges
Edmund White is a strange and exciting mix of the scholarly and the scandalous. So whether you're favoring the mind or the body, you'll find something to like in just about anything he's written. (We have a hardback copy of The Burning Library, a collection of his essays, for an absurdly low $5.99; that's a … Continue reading Edmund White recalls Nabokov imitating Borges
Ryszard Kapuscinski: News and Two Views
The late, great Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski died last month. He wrote atmospheric, poetic--and, it's been charged, unsubstantiated--accounts of upheavals in Angola, Iran, and Ethopia. The good news: Granta has posted an interview with Kapuscinski from 1987. Meanwhile, dueling articles at slate.com present the man as either a novelist masquerading as a journalist or a … Continue reading Ryszard Kapuscinski: News and Two Views
Musings from Magers and Quinn 