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This is my last ever post 11 Jul 2011 | 05:50 am
On this blog, anyway. It feels weird, because I've been here since sometime in 2004. But I've been thinking for a while that I needed an internet home of my own. So a website it is, and at some point ...
Don Marquis, Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers 6 Jul 2011 | 06:41 am
My regular KindleMag column on out of copyright books returns this month and can be read in the magazine or at the site, here. This month I focused on a wonderful collection of satirical pieces by Don...
Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno 30 Jun 2011 | 02:37 am
If our Left of Cool column is meant to celebrate anything it is the glorious and the weird. I read sections of Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno last year and fell deeply in love with it for just thes...
Francine Pascal, Sweet Valley Confidential 20 Jun 2011 | 12:23 am
Somewhere in my blog drafts there exists a post about sequels (particularly when they come a few years later, and/or are by different authors) as a form of literary criticism - in that they generally ...
Rachel Ferguson, The Brontës went to Woolworths 12 Jun 2011 | 06:18 pm
I expected myself to really love The Brontës went to Woolworths. When I did not, I did what any reasonable person would do; tried to make it more entertaining by reading it as a horror novel. Naturall...
Karen Joy Fowler, What I Didn't See 6 Jun 2011 | 07:05 am
A couple of months ago I reviewed Karen Joy Fowler's short story collection What I Didn't See for Global Comment. I'm reposting that piece here for the sake of completeness, and because apparently peo...
Do you like reading? 30 May 2011 | 05:48 pm
Skimming through this once more and this struck me as being rather quotable. "A woman at one of mother's parties once said to me, "Do you like reading?" which smote us all to silence, for how could o...
Suspicious Bulges II 25 May 2011 | 01:21 am
I'm not sure how I feel about the fact that this post (along with a couple about the hotness of Marat Safin) is one of the most searched items on this blog. Still, for those who are here because of it...
Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Rob Sitch, Molvanîa: A Land Untouched By Modern Dentistry 23 May 2011 | 06:53 am
My Left of Cool piece this week was about the travel guide Molvanîa: A Land Untouched By Modern Dentistry. Here is a famous citizen of Molvanîa: And here is the column. *****************************...
John Hodgman (ed), The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes 9 May 2011 | 07:45 pm
Why yes, I did write an entire column about a joke book. This week's Left of Cool. ********************************************** A surprising amount of our humour is about the difference between “u...
