by bertbaby | Jun 10, 2014 | Book Reviews
June 10: On this day in 1881, Count Leo Tolstoy donned his peasant coat and homemade bark shoes, gathered his walking staff and two bodyguards, and set out from his estate for the Optina Pustyn monastery.
by bertbaby | Jun 9, 2014 | Book Reviews
Hilda Hilst may be the Donna Tartt of Brazil, and this may be her answer to The Secret History. Published in America for the first time, this 1986 novel centers on a professor whose unorthodox teaching methods get him in hot water, and off on an odyssey of sex, drugs,...
by bertbaby | Jun 9, 2014 | Book Reviews
The titular year that was finds Brown vs. Board of Education coinciding with a season in which two of baseball’s best African-American players – Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants and Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians – dominated the major...
by bertbaby | Jun 9, 2014 | Book Reviews
June 9: The first American book to be copyrighted — John Barry’s The Philadelphia Spelling Book, Arranged Upon a Plan Entirely New — was registered on this day in 1790.
by bertbaby | Jun 8, 2014 | Book Reviews
Alan Weisman’s Countdown asks — and potentially answers — the big question: how can we ensure that human life has a future on Earth?
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