Monday, October 24, 2022

Dave Hickey, _Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy_

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 I HAD HAD this on the shelf for years and had read in it desultorily, but it took the news of his death to get me to actually go through it...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Brit Bennett, _The Vanishing Half_

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 I AM CATCHING up here--when school started, I fell woefully behind in my blogging. Fiona Hill (see post of a minute past) was our book club...

Fiona Hill, _There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century_

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 IF YOU REMEMBER Fiona Hill, I expect it is because of her brave and revealing testimony in the first Trump impeachment trial. I imagine tha...

Richard Thompson (with Scott Timberg), _Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice, 1967-1975_

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THOMPSON HAD AN eventful youth and early manhood. He was a founding member of Fairport Convention, the seminal English folk-rock band, and h...
Thursday, October 13, 2022

Hilton Als, _Alice Neel, Uptown_

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 AN ART BOOK, basically, with fifty-some full-page color reproductions of paintings by Alice Neel, who lived in Harlem in the 1940s, '50...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Jack Underwood, _Happiness_

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 FROM 2015--THIS is his first collection, I believe, with a second arriving last year. It feels like an old-school kind of poetry collection...
Thursday, August 4, 2022

Pat Rogers, _The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street_ (1 of 2)

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IS ALEXANDER POPE one of the great English poets? Eighteenth century readers were willing to see him as such, by and large, and. it's ha...