Am I jaded? I don't think that this year's nominees for the UK's Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year are actually all that odd. The six finalists are I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love QueenHow to Write a How to Write BookAre Women Human? And Other International DialoguesCheese Problems SolvedIf You … Continue reading Not So Odd
Oscar Small Talk
Paul Thomas Anderson's movie There Will Be Blood (nominated for Best Picture) is based on Upton Sinclair's muckraking 1927 novel Oil!. Sinclair--a feverent socialist--hoped his novel would expose the greed and moral corruption inherent in capitalism--and generally smash the system.And how faithfully has Tinseltown brought Sinclair's message to the big screen? Well, There Will Be … Continue reading Oscar Small Talk
But We Don’t Fall Down
The Minnesota Daily's John Sand has a nice review of our recent event with poet Li-Young Lee. (Read it here.) He has a lot of nice things to say about Lee and his poetry, though I have to take issue with his description of our podium as "wobbly." We have over a dozen events a … Continue reading But We Don’t Fall Down
Musings from Magers and Quinn 