Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
I do hope Brendan wasn't too influenced by my disparaging comment on Microserfs (context). Microserfs felt epic and seldom annoying. I liked it a lot, and should reread it.
You can still read book excerpts, online, at BookBrowse, from Louise Erdrich to Joseph Ellis.
The Salon office environment reminds me, I now realize, of some cross between every media outlet I've ever worked for (e.g., KUOP, "Talking it Through with John Morearty: Dialogues on War and Peace", all my …
Since evidently I'm a 24 Hour Party Person and can't be bothered to actually talk about the books I'm reading, I hereby point you to the Cody's Books summer recommends. I recommended The Apprentice, Crescent, …
One of our distributors maintains a web page that alerts booksellers to hot new titles about to hit the market. One such title: Lost Souls of the Dead and Dying by J. Berkman. Publisher Marketing: …
That pretty much defined my day. Steve's travelogue, a very nice evening with Adam, and some Gordon Korman (The Zucchini Warriors and Losing Joe's Place) distracted me. Man, I really gotta fill up my weekend. …
On second thought, maybe modern sci-fi already contains an abundance of the sort of thinking exemplified in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and my friends, who read much sci-fi, will not …
Just started reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. Excellent so far. It's a rather-hyped mystery novel whose first-person protagonist is a 15-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome (I think). …
I just reread Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed. Silly idea: a book entitled The Good Soldier Shevek. [The born-and-raised socialist/anarchist] tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was …
While researching books for a customer, I discovered that the University of Chicago Press posts tons of fascinating excerpts. Behind the scenes at talk shows, why hundreds of Chicagoans died in the 1995 heat wave …