Archives for the 'literary' Category
Top 10 Reasons To Buy My Wife’s Book
Published on 11 Aug 2009 at 9:48 am.
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Tethered: A Novel, out in paperback today.
10. NYT called it a “hypnotic debut.”
9. Paris Match compared her writing to Henry James and Emily Dickinson.
8. Borders likes it too, it’s their August Spotlight: http://www.borders.com/online/store/ArticleView_mystery0809
7. Marie Clair Australia called it ”a haunting and multilayered debut novel, with a killer twist.”
6. If reading it in English doesn’t work for you, there’s [...]
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This Just In
Published on 26 May 2009 at 11:24 am.
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Filed under A Right-Wing Warmonger's Boutique Bookshop, history, literary.
Some reader suggestions for the shelves at Crittenden’s Boutique Right-Wing Warmonger Bookshop:
The Gallic War, Julius Caesar.
The Patton Papers, 1885-1940, George S. Patton
Thanks, good choices, GW, who adds ”any of the S.L.A. Marshall books … Most read like what they are, after action reviews of combat.” Some dispute over exactly what they are, though. The legendary combat historian [...]
Acute Literary
Published on 9 May 2009 at 11:16 pm.
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A Sunday reading list from another mother’s son. Gordon Alanko, aka Teflon Don, home safe at Acute Politics with another simple, wistful, evocative post that reminds me how much I miss him, back when he was the best American combat writer on the ground in Iraq. I knew there was a reason why he was that good.
My parents [...]
Crittenden’s Boutique Right-Wing Warmonger Bookshop & General Store
Published on 1 Apr 2009 at 12:28 pm.
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Filed under A Right-Wing Warmonger's Boutique Bookshop, blogs, books, literary, money, shameless opportunism, shameless self-promotion.
You’ll notice the Pajamas Media ads at top and at left have been replaced by Amazon widgets. This is because PJM has discontinued its blog advertising network, of which I was an arm’s length member.
My non-exclusive contract paid less than the usual deal, but allowed me to pursue other advertising relationships. I never did the math to figure out whether [...]
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The Brakes Of Wrath
Published on 13 Mar 2009 at 10:34 pm.
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Filed under America, cars, literary.
It looked like a Coen Brothers knockoff at first. Fargo. AP: 3 execs, 81 cars missing from a Nebraska car dealership. Some of the cars have turned up at auction, elsewhere. Employees show up to an empty lot. The owner and a couple of execs are wanted on suspicion of theft.
Then I realized it was Steinbeck, updated. Neo-dustbowl, [...]
Poetic Chill = Warmalist Shill
Published on 8 Mar 2009 at 10:41 pm.
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Gulf News, reporting from Dubai on the threat to humanity posed by iambic cooling:
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Danger’s Hour
Published on 1 Mar 2009 at 12:10 am.
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Filed under history, literary, military.
My friend Max, a Cape Cod man currently living in Los Angeles,* has produced a towering work of history. I’m just finishing it now. Danger’s Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her has a couple of problems, technically and thematically, one of which I mentioned earlier. You know, the al-Qaeda, kamikaze, [...]
Philip Jose Farmer
Published on 26 Feb 2009 at 12:34 pm.
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Won’t be down to breakfast. One of sci-fi’s greats. A good appreciation at Reason.com, by a scribbler who read PJF in his teens and doesn’t know how they’d play in adulthood. I read a lot of Farmer in my 20s and 30s. Played fine. Still think about a lot of his strange and haunting ideas, his [...]
The Unforgiving Minute
Published on 22 Feb 2009 at 8:33 am.
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The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education by Craig Mullaney, West Point grad, Rhodes scholar, Afghan war vet. Weekend read recommendation reviewed by Dilegge at Small Wars Journal, with a shout-out from Petraeus and links to other reviews. Title riffs off Kipling:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty Seconds’ worth of distance, run,
Yours is the Earth [...]
Hanky Panky Takes A Hit
Published on 9 Feb 2009 at 6:58 am.
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Filed under literary, men, money, sex, women.
Private dicks see a 50 percent drop in business, say cheats are getting cheaper. Boston Herald:
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Blighty Launch
Published on 5 Feb 2009 at 8:42 am.
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The wife’s novel, out last August in the United States, published today in the UK, gets a rave review from Adele Geras:
Old Warhorse’s 2008 Reads
Published on 5 Jan 2009 at 11:33 am.
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My pal Larry Gwin, the literary combat vet who apparently uses his time a lot more wisely than I do, reads and recommends from a wide bookshelf. They weren’t all published in 2008, that’s just when he read them:
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Agincourt
Published on 30 Dec 2008 at 12:20 am.
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Bernard Cornwell of Sharpe’s Rifles fame* tackles it. Jay Fitzgerald of Hubblog fame got the Herald’s review copy of Cornwell’s latest, Agincourt. Awaiting review. Meanwhile, here’s Henry V, via Shakespeare:
A Combat Vet’s Reading List
Published on 7 Dec 2008 at 12:44 am.
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Larry Gwin, former US Army captain, Silver Star, Purple Heart, XO of Alpha Co., 2/7 Cav, 1st Cav Division, veteran of the Ia Drang battles of 1965 and author of “Baptism: A Vietnam Memoir,” spent years trying to find some context for his own horrific combat experience by exploring war literature.
It’s useful exercise, a way for combat veterans [...]
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It Was A Dirty Job
Published on 5 Nov 2008 at 10:55 pm.
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Filed under Boston, literary, media.
But someone had to do it.* One of my favorite Globies, iconclastic freethinker Alex Beam, has a book out and a signing upcoming in Cambridge. “A Great Idea At The Time” is the history of the Great Books series and the debates that went into choosing them, “all fifty-four volumes of them… purporting to encompass all [...]
Putting On Ayers
Published on 3 Nov 2008 at 10:47 pm.
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Protein Wisdom with another study that claims Obama didn’t write his book, Ayers did. Well, if we have to have four years of him, it will be a lot more interesting if he had an unrepentant ex-terrorist write his memoir, along with Auntie the fugitive alien’s issues, etc.
St. Crispin’s Day
Published on 25 Oct 2008 at 10:36 am.
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Agincourt
and Balaclava. With a nod to Theo Spark, who notes that “On this day in history … we smacked the crap out of the French … and took the Russian guns.” At no little cost, but with some immortalizing side benefits. This day has produced some of the world’s most quoted war literature, treasured by many [...]
Rave Review
Published on 22 Oct 2008 at 10:03 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, literary, military.
From Teflon Don at Acute Politics for “In A Time of War,” on West Point’s Class of 2002.
Once A Marine
Published on 21 Oct 2008 at 9:13 pm.
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Gunny Nick Popaditch’s book, released earlier this month, synopsis, reviews and vid here. Here’s Ralph Peters’ take:
Rights Concern Prompts Poesy In Al-Britainiyah
Published on 12 Oct 2008 at 2:18 pm.
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Filed under Britain, GWOT, literary, moronocy.
Outraged Brit scribblers publish poetry, satire, essays vs. Brit anti-terrorism 42-day detention law. Online Advent-style calendar makes a great Christmas gift, nicely complements ”There Once Was a Man from Riyadh …” the collection of limericks decrying car bombs and beheadings that they published back in ‘04 …
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It Was A Dark And Stormy Night …
Published on 25 Sep 2008 at 8:46 am.
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I know the Bulwer-Lytton deadline is eight months out, but here’s an early nomination. The breathless indignation is … simply breathtaking. The overwriting … deeply, ponderously overwrought. Shaun Mullen, house bleeding heart handwringer kneejerk conspiracy theorizing Kumayahist** at the Moderate Voice, with The Staggering Cyncism of John McCain, whose campaign apparently was imploding before his cynicism went into full lurch:
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I Knew When I Married Her …
Published on 13 Sep 2008 at 10:18 am.
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… she was hot and smart. Fifteen years on she’s all that and it turns the wife can write, too. But don’t take my word for it.
New York Times Sunday Book Review:
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The Idiossey
Published on 1 Sep 2008 at 8:21 pm.
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Once again Iowahawk attempts to impress us with his passing knowledge of the great works of literature … and succeeds. In Iowahawk’s mitts, the blind old Greek’s ramblings soar. The Idiossey is a stunning tour de force of boring old stuff made funny. Bravo, maestro.
Book the First: A question for the Muse
Speak to me, O Muse, of [...]
My Wife’s Book
Published on 13 Aug 2008 at 10:42 am.
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“Tethered,” a novel by Amy MacKinnon, literary suspense, Random House. Think CSI on a soul-searching journey in which the protagonist is doing everything she can to look the other way. Searing gut-punch prose, a page-turner. OK, I’m her husband,* but I’m also a compulsive editor. She had other people performing that service for her, and after that early unpleasant [...]
World’s Worst Poet
Published on 16 May 2008 at 8:13 pm.
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Takes in more than J.K. Rowling at auction. NYT’s The Lede.
Halp Us Steefn Kinge Were Stuck In A Horrer Shoe
Published on 6 May 2008 at 1:32 pm.
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Scary dogs, crazy sadistic writers and Langoliers loosed on NewsBuster Noel Sheppard after Stephen King goes all Shining about the criticism of his own version of “Stuck in Iraq” … remarks which frankly skirt dangerously close to plagiarizing John Kerry.
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West Side Story II
Published on 10 Apr 2008 at 10:22 pm.
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It’s like the sequel to an American Romeo and Juliet story. Rocky Mountain News:
Book Deal
Published on 6 Apr 2008 at 8:24 pm.
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Howie Carr says Deval Patrick’s book reeks of the Wright stuff. No, not Rev. Wright. I thought so, too. Jim Wright. The Boston Herald columnist suggests the $1.3 million as-yet unwritten tome will be a great vehicle for political payoffs just like Wright’s was.
2008: Odyssey Over
Published on 19 Mar 2008 at 7:42 am.
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Filed under literary, science.
I’m sorry, Dave. Mr. Clarke won’t be down for his tube of breakfast. Instapundit with a brief appreciation and reminiscence.
Gunga Din
Published on 26 Feb 2008 at 8:55 am.
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Filed under history, literary, pols, racism.
I was steering clear of that comparison with the benighted wretch of imperialist doggerel fame, played in blackface in the movie. But the Dems aren’t so shy. This one, anyway. Boston Herald:
Kristol re Orwell on Kipling
Published on 18 Feb 2008 at 9:45 am.
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Filed under Man Who Would Be King, history, literary, pols.
And what they have to do with you. Great historical prism. Orwell was a lefty with a brain, who recognized the evil of communist as well as fascist oppression, and the dangers of acquiescence to either. He knew our flawed system was worth defending, setting aside squabbles for later. Kipling is ill-treated by Orwell in the cited essay as [...]
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Acute Photography
Published on 11 Jan 2008 at 1:36 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, literary, media.
Everyone’s favorite warrior poet is going to be a war snapper now. Teflon Don, headed back:
Ill Of The Dead
Published on 10 Nov 2007 at 11:56 pm.
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He comes to bury Mailer, not to praise him. Roger Kimball gets in ahead of the hagiography of the amoral megalomaniac. I’m guessing this one’s been in the can awaiting the blessed event for a while:
More Disclosure
Published on 12 Aug 2007 at 10:15 am.
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Filed under literary, pols, shameless self-promotion.
That ad over there. Yeah, that’s my cousin. The lovely, talented and always controversial Danielle Crittenden. Love her, hate her, make sure you read her. ”The President’s Secret IMs” is the first novel composed entirely of IMs, every page a screen grab. As far as I know, anyway. Welcome to the future. We’ll all be talking and writing that way [...]
Full Disclosure
Published on 8 Aug 2007 at 10:11 am.
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That ad over there? Yeah, she’s my cousin. She’s paying full fare, though I would have given her the space for free. Good at what she does, like all Crittendens. A fine turn of shtick with the IM thing. Natural gift of gab. It has to be all the generations spent in the ancestral pubs of Oz [...]
Mullah Goose
Published on 6 Jul 2007 at 8:04 am.
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Filed under GWOT, literary.
Theo launches a Jihadi nursery rhyme contest. Here’s my entry:
Guantanamo Poetry Contest
Published on 20 Jun 2007 at 12:08 pm.
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Terrorism detainees find a publisher. This is great. I wonder if al-Qaeda plans to put out any of Daniel Pearl’s haiku, or the sonnets of Nicholas Berg. Think Matt Maupin has penned any doggerel lately?
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Sir Salman
Published on 19 Jun 2007 at 12:20 am.
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UPDATE: Pajamas signs on Danish Motoons editor’s blog.
Question No. 1. What did they give him a knighthood for? Pissing off Muslims?
QuickPoe
Published on 13 Jun 2007 at 8:33 am.
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For a Wednesday morning FastThink: Powerline’s “Don’t Stare at the Apes.”
RIP Kurt Vonnegut
Published on 12 Apr 2007 at 9:47 am.
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Devoured his books as a teenager, and believed a lot of the things he did, morality cartoonized and detached from reality, apparently thanks to Dresden and other personal traumas. But he had been there and done that, and in any case his books were entertaining, with a keen sense of irony. NYT here, includes this on the [...]
