by bertbaby | Aug 16, 2013 | Book Reviews
August 16: Elvis Presley died on this day in 1977. The closing pages of Peter Guralnick’s monumental two-volume biography — Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love — attempt to capture the King’s freak-show funeral and to ignore the...
by bertbaby | Aug 15, 2013 | Book Reviews
August 15: “Woodstock Nation” was officially born on this day in 1969, when the legendary music festival opened in Upstate New York. Richie Havens recalls launching into his famous “FREE-dom!” improvisation, while Ravi Shankar describes the...
by bertbaby | Aug 14, 2013 | Book Reviews
Science Fiction, that harbinger of things to come, is a genre alive and well, continuing to serve as an illumination of our greatest hopes and fears for what the future holds. Similarly, the epic tales of the Fantasy genre cast the human experience as one of...
by bertbaby | Aug 14, 2013 | Book Reviews
The novelist’s life was spent focused on the ideal of the next one.
by bertbaby | Aug 14, 2013 | Book Reviews
The quest to re-create a fabled recipie takes a cheesemaker on a journey of triumph, defeat, and reconnection with the past.
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