Category: Books
Not with a bang, but a whimper: The Stand collapses
14 February 2021
Stephen King, and all of us, keep coming back to The Stand trying to get it right. First published in 1978, The Stand has been…
[Review] Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching that Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism
16 August 2013
More than 100 years ago in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a black man named Ed Johnson was dragged from his jail cell and taken to the Walnut…
Weekend Reading: “They Eat Puppies, Don’t They?” and “No Country for Old Men”
10 June 2013
Knocked down a couple of fiction books this weekend while traveling to and from Southeast LinuxFest. They Eat Puppies, Don’t They? by Christopher Buckley, and No Country…
[Review] The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
6 June 2013
A few years ago, I came late to The Wire, but caught up quickly. Usually I’m not one to buy the hype for television series,…
Book Review: Gulp by Mary Roach
27 April 2013
Mary Roach’s Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal is typical of her books, which is to say it’s a highly enjoyable read that belies the amount of…