Gordon Korman, a very good Canadian-American author for children and young adults, has fans amd is working on a retelling of The Great Gatsby entitled Jake, Reinvented. I'm looking forward to it.
Every so often, I go through a stressy hectic mopey spell, during which my laundry builds up to a seemingly unmanageable mound of slight stank. And so about every year I treat myself and decadently …
Libertarian children's books, from The Hobbit to Heinlein. Update: Man, I hadn't thought about Galt's Gulch in a long time. For those of you who haven't wasted hours of your life on Atlas Shrugged, Galt's …
His new book, Authentically Black, is available at Cody's now and has landed him on today's Forum with Michael Krasny (KQED 88.5FM in San Francisco, 10-11am). McWhorter also makes it into Slate's yea-or-nay-on-war roundup, where …
The trip plans have solidified. I'm going to Washington, DC, and will stay in the DC area, arriving the night of March 25th and leaving the afternoon of the 30th. I'll get to meet a …
Snatches of songs lend superficial symbolism to my internal monologue. Leonard's new almost-finished opus, The Whiskey Rebellion Activity Zone, or WRAZ. WRAZ would be an East Coast station specializing in obscure and grandiose threats -- …
Leonard and I shared a Googlewhack with Adam over brunch on Sunday. He momentarily thought that we should have rot13'd it.
As you know if you've met me, I sometimes enjoy socializing. This snarky article, like other pro-introvert books and articles I've recently seen, concentrates on the "we're so persecuted, everyone else is a boor" angle …
Zed relays scary news on the Cult Awareness Network. Don't trust them.
