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Carrie Tiffany’s New Novel

14 February 2012 I’m awfully glad to hear that Carrie Tiffany has a new novel out!  (I wrote about  her first novel Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living, at The Second Pass, a couple yea… more →

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Carrie Tiffany's New Novel

Bloom wrote 1 year ago: 14 February 2012 I’m awfully glad to hear that Carrie Tiffany has a new novel out!  (I wrote a … more →

Tags: the writing life, analogians anonymous, The Reading Life, Carrie Tiffany

Last Man in Tower — 1 comment

mythiligrao wrote 1 year ago: “It’s your society. Keep it clean.” So reads a sign in the elevator of Tower A of the fictional Vish … more →

Tags: Readings, Reviews, Books, India, Aravind Adiga, mumbai, Fiction, Reviews of Reviews

Summer Slowdown

Weston Cutter wrote 1 year ago: Not only is it summer, but I’ve got some massive changes happening (moving, new job), so expec … more →

Tags: Mystery, Shelf Unbound, Summer Updates, Full Stop, sixth finch, MAYDAY Magazine, Nothing to Say and Saying It, John Gallaher

>Montaigne, the long party

altimoniere wrote 2 years ago: >A review of Sarah Bakewell’s book on the life of Michel Montaigne @ The Second Pass. Miche … more →

Tags: Personal Essay, Book Review, Sarah Bakewell, Michel Montaigne

Distractions: June 24

tneal wrote 2 years ago: I am no longer sure ‘Distractions’ is appropriate.  The summer gig is under way and that … more →

Tags: Distraction, Fiction, writing, Paul Auster, Jonathan Franzen, Literature, Copyright, glenn beck, Brian Massumi

L'UX: The Clandestine Parisian Revolution

Lainya Magana wrote 3 years ago: I believe in the need for a revolution. A revolution of thought, of speech, of politics, of positivi … more →

Tags: Fine Art, Favorites, Lux, parisian underground, Jon Lackman, revolution, Underground Cinema, Infiltration

HuffPo's Book Section — 2 comments

Bloom wrote 3 years ago: 14 October 2009 Both The Second Pass and The Rumpus are disappointed/perplexed by the Huffington Pos … more →

Tags: Book Biz..., Reviews, media, Money, e-reading, BookStores, huffington post, The Rumpus, Amy Hertz

Carrie Tiffany's Quiet, Stirring Talent

Bloom wrote 3 years ago: 5 October 2009 I’ve recently “come out” regarding a favorite novel of mine.  For s … more →

Tags: Reviews, Carrie Tiffany

Book Review (Sort Of) at The Millions: The Tutor of History — 3 comments

Bloom wrote 3 years ago: 30 September 2009 Up at The Millions today, I’ve offered my own Top Five  works of fiction sin … more →

Tags: Reviews, Race/Culture, Politics, the millions, Manjushree Thapa, Carrie Tiffany

Pynchon Speaks ...

cambridge book review wrote 3 years ago: It’s confirmed. The voiceover on the video trailer for Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel, th … more →

Tags: Literature, film noir, Thomas Pynchon, inherent vice, The Dude, Jeff Bridges, The Big Lebowski, Will Blythe

Does Size (of Your Reading List) Matter? — 1 comment

Bloom wrote 3 years ago: 20 July 2009 I’ve just picked up Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, a book I’ … more →

Tags: the writing life, Reviews, Family, Teaching, Francine Prose

Roll Over Faulkner, And Tell Charles Dickens The News — 3 comments

aroundthesphere wrote 3 years ago: Oh, not that type of cannon? The Second Pass wants to kick some books out of the canon in a post ent … more →

Tags: Books, Noah Millman, Rod Dreher, Peter Suderman, Alan Jacobs, The American Scene, Alex Massie, Los Angeles Times, Dickensblog

Off the Hook — 2 comments

Bloom wrote 3 years ago: 11 July 2009 At The Second Pass, a cathartic twist on your typical “Top 10,” reading lis … more →

Tags: Reviews, analogians anonymous, social networking, goodreads.com

Once a Runner by John L. Parker, Jr. — 9 comments

TK wrote 3 years ago: It’s taken me a while, but I finally wrote my review of Once a Runner by John L. Parker, Jr. a … more →

Tags: Reviews, john parker jr, once a runner, John L Parker Jr, thesecondpass.com

Depression, creativity and some more linkage — 12 comments

James Bradley wrote 4 years ago: I’ve not seen it yet, but the print edition of Saturday’s Age has an extract from my Gri … more →

Tags: Books, Stuff, writing, Clay Shirky, Creativity, Depression, Griffith Review, the millions

The Second Pass — 1 comment

James Bradley wrote 4 years ago: Image by Richard Eriksson A while back, I was musing about the future of the book review in an onlin … more →

Tags: Books, media, Reviews and Criticism, Maud Newton, ron silliman

My Vocabulary Did This To Me — 1 comment

dailyvalue wrote 4 years ago: By Terese Saplys April, as we all know by now, is both cruel and (for being cruel?) an occasion for … more →

Tags: my vocabulary did this to me, Emily Bobrow, farrar, FLAK, Gogol, Guardian, James Wood, lowboy, Mark Sarvas


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