Angela Davis’ “Abolition Democracy”
Angela Davis has a pretty fantastic author’s byline. She’s run for vice-president of the United States twice on the Communist Party USA ticket, she’s been on the FBI’s “Ten Most…
“Quack This Way” and the merits of prescriptive linguistics
This book is really more a transcribed conversation than anything else, but it is absolutely worth your time. In it, David Foster Wallace and Bryan Garner (of Garner’s Usage Dictionary…
Don’t Forget about The Art of Fiction
Image via The Paris Review http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews Just a bit of a PSA today. Unless you have an ontological opposition to reading interviews, you should absolutely check out the…
Reading Log: Marc Maron’s Attempting Normal
After slogging through Amy Poehler's memoir/funnybook, I must confess I had some concerns going into this particular audiobook. I love Maron’s standup and his interviews, but I’ve always found him…
Reading Log: John Cavanagh’s Piper at the Gates of Dawn (A 33 1/3 Book)
Yup, more rock journalism. I’m not tired of it yet. Cavanagh sights in perfectly here, focusing on the album itself and only touching on the tumultuous events that followed (the…