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Best Books of the Year in Cookbooks, Food & Wine
Posted Nov 14, 2011 at Omnivoracious
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Hooray for Kate Beaton
Posted Oct 4, 2011 at Omnivoracious
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Alton Brown on "Good Eats 3: The Later Years"
Posted Sep 28, 2011 at Omnivoracious
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Amitav Ghosh Returns to the Opium Trade in "River of Smoke"
Posted Sep 23, 2011 at Omnivoracious
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Amy Waldman on "The Submission"
Posted Aug 16, 2011 at Omnivoracious
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Colin Cotterill's "Killed at the Whim of a Hat"
Posted Aug 5, 2011 at Omnivoracious
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2011 Bulwer-Lytton Winners Announced
Readers, prepare to cringe: the winners of the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton contest, which challenges entrants to compose bad opening sentences to imaginary novels, have been announced. You might not know the book Paul Clifford, but you definitely know its immortal first... Continue reading
Posted Jul 26, 2011 at Omnivoracious
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Penguin Typewriters are Here to Remind You About the Classics
Posted Apr 12, 2011 at Omnivoracious
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@Christine -- I did make it to the Kafka museum! It really reminded you that there was a person behind all of the imaginative (and labyrinthine) writing.
@MarcJ -- Great shots of the bridge. It was sunny and warm while I was there, but I definitely imagined the bridge to be gloomier than how it appeared in my photos. For example, we passed an organ grinder and/or a Dixieland band every day when we crossed the bridge (our hotel was in the Hradcanska area), which was pretty jaunty, i.e. not quite the same mood as when the figures into Kavalier & Clay.
Commented Apr 8, 2011 on Literary Sightseeing in Prague at Omnivoracious
Literary Sightseeing in Prague
Forget tour buses and travel guides: in some places, you can put together an entire sightseeing trip just from the pages of your favorite books. The New York Times did it in 2005 with their Literary Map of Manhattan, which featured everything from Moby Dick to Howl. And on my trip to Prague, Cze...
Pretty incredible how we have an endless taste for procedurals. Though I guess you could say the same about TV, too: just replace the NCIS/CSI franchises with Law & Order.
Here's another interesting question: would the top 10 self-help titles from 2001 talk about the same themes as the ones from 2011? I wonder if you could do a psychological history of Americans through bestseller lists.
Commented Mar 27, 2011 on Making the List: What's Changed in Ten Years? at Omnivoracious
Making the List: What's Changed in Ten Years?
If bestseller lists interest you, hunt down a copy of Michael Korda's extraordinary (and unfortunately, out-of-print) 2001 book, Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900-1999. You'd think our reading taste would change, but Korda's analysis will surprise you. They d...
The trailer for Sarah Vowell's Unfamiliar Fishes is about the Hawaiian dish 'plate lunch,' and it's both making me hungry for lunch and weirding me out with its use of blue noodles and rice as diorama backdrops.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlj2sdEelak
Commented Mar 22, 2011 on New and Notable Book Trailers at Omnivoracious
New and Notable Book Trailers
Often times, book trailers leave something to be desired. There's even the Moby Awards, which celebrate the best and worst of them (mostly the worst). But every once in a while, we come across a trailer that's not necessarily good or bad, but are notable for other reasons. Do you love The Wire a...
Throwing in a contender for #11: it's finally nice enough to contemplate reading outside.
Commented Mar 17, 2011 on Top 10 Reasons to Get Excited About Fiction in April at Omnivoracious
Top 10 Reasons to Get Excited About Fiction in April
10. The illicit romance at the circus Water for Elephants hits the big screen starring Reese Witherspoon and Edward Cullen--I mean--Robert Pattinson. 9. Marshall is neurotic, divorced, and has issues, yet he's willing to give dating another shot in Daniel Clowes's pitch-perfect and humble grap...
Dahve, thanks for the catch -- it's now the right Foer. Apologies for any potential inter-sibling literary confrontations we might have fomented.
Commented Mar 15, 2011 on Reviewing the Reviewers: Joshua Foer, David Brooks and More at Omnivoracious
Reviewing the Reviewers: Joshua Foer, David Brooks and More
Book reviews, hot off the presses (so to speak). It's a non-fiction-heavy week that takes us from applying to college to the United States memory championship. And it just so happens to include several titles from Amazon's Best Books of March list, too: The New York Times: Michiko Kakutani o...
Is Meryl Streep out of the running?
Commented Mar 11, 2011 on From the Comments: The "Hunger Games" Movie at Omnivoracious
From the Comments: The "Hunger Games" Movie
Last Friday, I wrote about the three actresses up for the lead role in the adaptation of Suzanne Collins's dystopian young-adult trilogy Hunger Games. Around the office, we'd been debating whether Hallie Steinfeld, Jennifer Lawrence, and Abigail Breslin were worthy of playing Katniss. Omni read...
Onward: An Interview with Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz
Posted Mar 9, 2011 at Omnivoracious
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