Mississippi Dreaming

by | Jan 17, 2014 | Book Reviews

January 17: “The Mississippi was my best invention; a dream that was always there, like a big friendly room with an open door into which I could wander at will.”  

Brown Dog

by | Jan 16, 2014 | Book Reviews

The adventures of Jim Harrison’s “wonderful backwoods nitwit” are collected in one rollicking set of linked tales.  

Endangered Africa

by | Jan 16, 2014 | Book Reviews

January 16: “[M]odern humans consume disproportionately more resources than other vertebrates, including humans who had simpler lifestyles.”  

Black Music

by | Jan 15, 2014 | Book Reviews

Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) “wrote with ecstasy—highly informed and intricate—about ecstatically complex music”, says Richard Brody of this raucous collection of essays on modern jazz giants (Coltrane, Monk, Sun Ra and more) and their sonic...