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April 5th, 2007 Here and There Posted in entertainment, fiction, journalism, literature, slightly ridiculous No Comments »
I have to agree with The Chronicle’s Jon Carroll here. It’s one thing to make up stories when your job is to entertain, as is David Sedaris’s. It’s another when you’re the leader of the free world.
Apparently, The New Republic has run a story “debunking” Sedaris’s yarns. Oh really? I never thought any of those 3,034,583 stories of his were fiction. Not a single detail.
September 4th, 2006 Here and There Posted in fiction, literature, serious 1 Comment »
* meaning I will do my best not to reveal salient plot points.
I get teased quite a bit for spoiling books and movies. I don’t mean to do it, but I suppose oblivion is as flimsy a defense as eating Twinkies.
So…all I mean to do in this space is say that I read Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves…wait, if I were to go on with this sentence, I’m sure something important would slip through.
How about this? READ THIS BOOK.