Give your eyes a break and listen to these book related podcasts – including author interviews, live readings and interesting facts from the literary world. 1. The New Yorker: Fiction : A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman. 2. Litopia A podcast from the Litopia Writer’s Colony[Read More...]
I woke up at 2:30am the other night and couldn’t fall back asleep. This happens every once in a while when I have too much on my mind. I used to toss and turn and get frustrated, angry – sometimes blaming my husband as he would lie there dreaming. He’d[Read More...]
If you carry any Health & Fitness books, here are a couple worth carrying. Starting Strength a ‘Must-Own’ For Any Weightlifter There’s a reason that everyone recommends Mark Rippetoe’s Starting Strength to any beginner looking to better themselves in the weight room — it’s one of the premiere entry-level books[Read More...]
by Jas Faulkner I joined my first book club in the mid-eighties. We were a loosely organized group of a dozen or so students from three different colleges in Memphis. We met at each other’s apartments and dorm rooms twice a month to discuss the book we’d chosen, what else[Read More...]
by Jas Faulkner If you’re reading this not long after it was written (October 31st, 2013) you have probably seen the many reports about an anonymous woman in North Dakota who declared that she was indeed passing out candy, but not to children she deemed “moderately obese”. They would get[Read More...]
by Jas Faulkner I have never been a fan of “best of” lists. It’s not the subjectivity that gets me. They always seemed so narrow. The old sci-fi list books and the current crop of internet sites that are completely devoted to lists seemed blinkered somehow, whether it was[Read More...]
I’m into porn. Cookbook porn. It’s a terrible habit. I have the basics: Betty, Julia, Fanny. I have the stuff that’s a little off: Nigella, Bobby, even a Canadian named Laura. Then there are the extremes: Silver Palate, Babycakes, Death By Chocolate. It’s a guilty pleasure. I savor each cookbook[Read More...]
by Jas Faulkner It might seem like a needless bit of sophistry to contemplate the evolution of the definition of ”book.” We all know what makes up a book, right? Say the word, “book” and the immediate association for most is still an aggregate of leaves bearing printed information, bound[Read More...]
