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Tomato Nation Read-Along #1: Going In Circles, by Pamela Ribon
June 10, 2010 – 6:33 PM | 27 Comments
Tomato Nation Read-Along #1: <I>Going In Circles</I>, by Pamela Ribon

THE THREAD COMETH! THURSDAY! BE THERE!
Also! Live chat with Ms. Ribon herself   Wednesday 30 June. Stay tuned.
The readers have spoken! Our first TN Read-Along book is Going In Circles, by Pamela Ribon. All y’all …

A Tomato Nation Read-Along: Discuss
June 8, 2010 – 5:52 PM | 44 Comments
A Tomato Nation Read-Along: Discuss

A few readers mentioned here that they’d like to do a TN read-along. I love the idea, in theory.
In practice, we might have a couple of issues, the first of which is book selection. I …

Hit Charade
March 16, 2010 – 9:52 AM | One Comment
<I>Hit Charade</I>

Not every magazine article should get promoted to full-length book. Sometimes it works (Into Thin Air), but sometimes it doesn’t: Tyler Gray’s Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. …

Open: Meth and the Maidens
January 9, 2010 – 10:30 AM | 12 Comments
<I>Open</I>: Meth and the Maidens

— by Todd K
Often when an autobiography makes pre-release headlines for its “shocking revelations” (in the case of Open, the big ones were Andre Agassi’s early-1990s mullet wig, late-1990s meth use, and lifelong hatred of …

Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
November 12, 2009 – 1:39 PM | 12 Comments
<I>Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town</I>

Reporters and writers of non-fiction run into trouble when, as their story begins to take shape, they decide that that story speaks a larger truth about Us As [Adjective] Americans.Us As 21st-Century Americans, Us As …

Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By
November 6, 2009 – 9:02 AM | 81 Comments
<I>Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By</I>

I watch enough “vintage” movies and television that I find myself thinking about bygone customs and technology a lot — like how writers will contrive to have characters overhear phone messages not meant for them, …

Grounded
November 5, 2009 – 12:59 PM | One Comment
<I>Grounded</I>

Hey, remember the Ask The Readers book I put you guys onto in July, about the kid with the glider and the school play?   I ordered a copy from Half.com and re-read it in …

Contest/Support Local Biz: Asirda, Greg Heffley, and PayPal
October 15, 2009 – 9:29 PM | 12 Comments
Contest/Support Local Biz: Asirda, Greg Heffley, and PayPal

I just said a mouthful!
An odd and an end first: 1) my review of Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days is up on Monkey See — great read, as usz (Kinney, not …

Contest: Kudos…and a second mini-prize!
October 2, 2009 – 10:55 AM | 16 Comments

First: $15,280 as of this writing.   That’s 10% of our initial goal.   In…about a day.   I would tell you that I can’t believe it, but I totally can.   Outstanding work, guys.
Second: …

All the ormolu that’s fit to print: Works of Edith Wharton
August 17, 2009 – 11:10 AM | 36 Comments
All the ormolu that’s fit to print: <I>Works of Edith Wharton</I>

Works of Edith Wharton does not contain all of Wharton’s works — to fit the novels and the gardening/architecture stuff and the erotica and the letters and all the other “and”s into one volume obviously …