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Chabon and the Blashfield Address

jamesprimosch wrote 14 hours ago: A message from the MacDowell Colony came in recently,  mentioning that you can hear the address give … more →

Tags: American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chuck Close, Louise Gluck, MacDowell Colony, wallace shawn

Round 5 of the Great Summer Reading Escapade2 comments

xanderoutloud wrote 1 day ago: It’s here, the fifth post in this hopefully summer-long series.  I present to you: Another Mic … more →

Tags: Summer Reading Reviews and Commentary, book, Summer Reading, Read, The, Gentlemen, ö.f., road, Review

Part Four of Summer Reading

xanderoutloud wrote 2 days ago: Yes, I finished a book in less than twelve hours.  Actually, this book took me about an hour.  Impre … more →

Tags: Summer Reading Reviews and Commentary, book, Summer Reading, Read, The, Final, Solution

City Series, Vol I: Pittsburgh

lbphbbt wrote 2 days ago: by Eric Meisberger and Tony Mareino, LBPH Reader Advisors Welcome to the “City Series”, an ongoing c … more →

Tags: afterimage, Brian O'Neill, Cassette, city of bridges, city series, Digital, Eric, kathleen george, LBPH

Dad's turn: Books for Father's Day

lisalisabookjam wrote 1 week ago: While here at the Book Jam we don’t necessarily subscribe to the notion that some books are go … more →

Tags: Amateur Philosophers, Fiction Fanatics, Tough GIfts, A hologram for the king, Dave Eggers, FATHERS DAY, Heath Ledger, Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Julia Stiles

My Summer Rereading Program

Scott William Foley wrote 1 week ago: I teach a class during the school year called Modern Fiction, and it’s basically an independen … more →

Tags: My $00.02, Paul Auster, American Gods, Literature, In the Country of Last Things, Read, Reading, Kurt Vonnegut, The Final Solution

Inspired By: Will Staehle

Mari wrote 1 week ago: They say you can’t judge a book by it’s cover, but…Paul is currently reading The Y … more →

Tags: Inspiration, projects, book, Cover, Design, Robin Sharma, Rules for being amazing, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Will Staehle

Four Reasons Fan Fiction Can Be A Good Thing2 comments

emilybridges wrote 1 week ago: “It was a dark and stormy night. A shot rang out. A maid screamed. Sam and Dean Winchester wer … more →

Tags: Things We Write, writing, fan fiction, newsies, Neil Gaiman, Aeneid, Virgil

Essential Reading: June 20135 comments

bennardfajardo wrote 2 weeks ago: I knew it. I just knew it. The moment I reveled in the amazing feeling of reading so many books last … more →

Tags: Books, Reading List, Atonement, Ian McEwan, Essential Reading, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

Wandering in the desert, then a glimpse...

therealzackbecker wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve been a regular attendee at the Houston Zen Center for several years now (I don’t sa … more →

Tags: Rabbi, Jews, Judaism, Reform Judaism, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Temple Sinai

Review: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon1 comment

Kathy J wrote 2 weeks ago: Michael Chabon is one of my favorite authors. I always get the sense when I am reading his novels th … more →

Tags: Pulitzer winner, Fiction, Depressing, Long, Best Of List, TBR, 2013 TBR PILE Reading Challenge, Book Review, Book Blog

#310 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Ashe wrote 2 weeks ago: Summary The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon is the reason I have not had a … more →

Tags: Fiction, Historical Fiction, romantic fiction, Books set in Europe, Finding your self, Coming of Age, Social commentary, Mystery, wwii

10 never-published Michael Crichton titles to be released as e-books

Amanda Taylor wrote 2 weeks ago: [ew_image url="http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2013/05/30/MICHAEL-CRICHTON.jpg" credit="Jonathan Exley" … more →

Tags: Books, E-Books

Some of My Favorite Authors' Favorite Books

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong wrote 2 weeks ago: I’m on this whole get-inspired-for-next-book kick, which has meant a lot of reading and a lot … more →

Tags: About Me, Books 2, Books, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Fielding, Jami Attenberg, nick hornby, Woody Allen

Kavalier and Clay and Superman 13 comments

cindybruchman wrote 3 weeks ago: If you stumble over a box in your grandparent’s attic with an Action Comics #1 of Superman, pu … more →

Tags: Actors, Authors, Books, directors, History, Movies, Comics, Superman

Wanderlust Wednesday: Read Read Read

minusthebox wrote 3 weeks ago: A book can do many things, but its greatest power is teleportation. Being engaged in a great novel c … more →

Tags: Wanderlust, Arts, New York City, Shopping, Paris, Buzzfeed, Books, E-Books, Business and Economy

Year of a Hundred books – #46 Telegraph Avenue2 comments

Nick wrote 3 weeks ago: Telegraph Avenue – Michael Chabon 3/5 I enjoyed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, … more →

Tags: Reviews, Fiction, Books, 100 books, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Yiddish Policemens Union, Telegraph Avenue, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, liberal guilt

Wish I'd Written That: Michael Chabon (Of Course!)

rixbitz wrote 3 weeks ago: Good Book, Good Cover “The bass man felt his way up and down the fretboard like a blind man re … more →

Tags: Bookz, book, Literature, Telegraph Avenue, bass man, fretboard, Cover

Review: Michael Chabon's “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay”

writereaderly wrote 3 weeks ago: A ginormous, excellently written, highly imagined novel. Chabon relates the stories of Brooklyn Jew … more →

Tags: Gift, Good


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