September 2011
10 posts
#fridayreads Wolcott Gibbs: “Nobody knows anything...
@NewYorker (1941) - The great paradox about this age of perfect communication, of course, is that nobody knows anything about what’s going on. We ourself read six newspapers every day, listen interminably to the radio, and spend a good deal of our time talking to industrious prophets who have just flown in from the warring cities and the capitals and the battle fronts. Our guess is that we...
September e-book promotions from Bloomsbury - only...
Great prices ($2.99-$3.99) from your etailer of choice (Kindle, Nook, Kobo, etc) for these 11 titles! Includes Booker Prize-winning author Alan Hollinghurst, the Turner triology from the crime novelist James Sallis (who wrote DRIVE, which is now a film), Stephen Clarke comic novels, Katie Hickman’s historical novel The Aviary Gate and Nina Planck’s Real Food. (Click on the jackets for...
.@RepMikeHonda invites Richard Wilkinson to DC for...
THE SPIRIT LEVEL co-author Richard Wilkinson will return to the United States in two weeks to discuss his work at Boston-area colleges, before heading to Washington D.C. for a Congressional briefing with Representative Mike Honda on Friday October 7.
Wilkinson is the co-author of THE SPIRIT LEVEL, the groundbreaking study which analyzes the effects of economic inequality on any given...
2 tags
Wolcott Gibbs: "The air has an edge in...
We closed the gray house on the beach last week with the same feeling we have each year. It is always very sad to go. The last time the colored umbrellas and the children’s toys are brought up from the beach and packed to go to town is the most melancholy of our annual domestic rites. It always seems too soon to be going back to the city. The air has an edge in September, but most of the time the...
