This week! Books! People have been searching for answers for Putin’s senseless war in Ukraine, and at least one intriguing piece of the puzzle comes from Mikhail Yuriev’s 2006 utopian novel The Third Empire: Russia as It Ought to Be, which starts with an unannounced war in eastern Ukraine, and culminates in the entire world […]
Fifty Shades of Grey
The Last Few Week in Books 4/15/13
Photo by me. Instagram! Lots of links! But first, in case you missed it last week the Louisville Cardinals won the National Championship, which means Susanne7799 was the winner of the 5th Annual Blog Bracket Challenge! By a wide margin, actually. It also means Ted Cross finished in second place for the third consecutive year. […]
The Last Few Weeks in Books 3/21/13
Springtime in Brooklyn First up: In case you missed it on Wednesday, Maggie Mason and I are kicking off a project where we’re writing thank you notes to our favorite writers. Join us in the #ThankAWriter project! Details are here. Meanwhile: Lots and lots of links, so let’s do this quick hit style: Chinua Achebe, […]
The Last Few Week in Books 1/4/12
As if my blogging hasn’t sporadic enough with the craziness of the holidays, next week is CES, land of 100″ TVs and 18-hour-work days! Yes, I am headed to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, where the devices of tomorrow are gawked at by the nerds of today. It’s always a lot of fun, […]
What people talk about when they talk about bad writing
One thing about my Fifty Shades of Grey post that inspired some mild controversy was my insistence that it’s not that badly written. What’s interesting about talking about “good” writing and “bad” writing is that when people use those terms, different people often mean different things. When I talk about “good” writing and “bad” writing, […]
Why You Think Fifty Shades of Grey is So Popular
There were lots of great comments about Fifty Shades of Grey yesterday! I thought it would be cool to round some of them up into a separate post to show what you, the people think of the book that is more popular than pretty much anything ever. First, about that helicopter, which I alleged was […]
