The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The story is told in a self-consciously poetic way, as if the author wrote it while sitting behind a duck blind with a camouflaged typewriter, looking at a picture of Walt Whitman and listening to Wagner.
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Book Details Paperback, 224 pages 2002, Modern Library ISBN: 0375759239 Synopsis This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences...
X Poetics (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Beverly Dahlen, Fall 2009 Candlestick Point State Park Photo by Jackie Link This interview with Beverly Dahlen was conducted via email in October 2009. It will appear here in several installments. Enjoy! Click HERE to read some of Dahlen's poetry and HERE to read tributes to her from various contemporary writers. RTM: Your A Reading 1-7 begins with a quote from George Steiner that references Wittgenstein...
Edward Lucas (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
The fall of Communism Wall stories Nov 5th 2009 From The Economist print edition How communism in eastern Europe collapsed, and what came next. Scholars and journalists give their account Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment . By Stephen Kotkin. Modern Library; 197 pages; $24. Buy from Amazon.com 1989: The Berlin Wall: My Part in its Downfall . By Peter Millar. Arcadia;...
Powell's Books: Overview (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Meditations (Modern Library Classics) by Aurelius Marcus, a review from Powells.com by Doug Brown.
The Economist (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
How communism in eastern Europe collapsed, and what came next. Scholars and journalists give their account Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment. By Stephen Kotkin. Modern Library; 197 pages; $24. Buy from Amazon.com 1989: The Berlin Wall: My Part in its Downfall. By Peter Millar. Arcadia; 220 pages; GBP11.99. To be published in America by Arcadia in April 2010; $16.95....
hamid & company (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Nick Gillespie | October 7, 2009 Ayn Rand and the World She Made . By Anne C. Heller. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. 567 pp. $35 Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right . By Jennifer Burns. Oxford Univ. Press. 369 pp. $27.95 Has any major postwar American author taken as much critical abuse as Ayn Rand? Her best-known novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, have sold more than 12 million...
The Michigan Daily (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
When the Modern Library polled more than 200,000 readers in 1998 to compile its 100 Best Novels list, voters in the poll selected writer Ayn Rand, an objectivist novelist, as the clear winner. Books by Rand took the top two spots and a total of four places in the top 10.
Ivebeenreadinglately (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Since first discovering the giant Modern Library anthology Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural last fall, I've admired it as much for its timing as for its quality: it was published in early 1944, when the war, though going far better than it had been a few years before, was still a long way from being over. I love picturing editors Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise drawing up a list of stories,...
The Secular Outpost (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
In a major departure from my usual debunking mode, I am going to offer what I consider the strongest argument in favor of Christianity. No, let me hasten to assure everyone, I am not going all “Tony Flew” here. I think the arguments for the existence of God, whether considered individually or cumulatively, are totally worthless. Some theistic arguments are inferior specimens of a very dubious...
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Someone once said (it was me) that Iris Murdoch wrote so many novels that if you are in the mood to read something by her, there is probably a fresh one available.
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight Back to widget time. Really. Just want to sell some books, even if this internet thing is part of the reason why lovable stores like Black Oak (and Cody's, of course) are long gone. So, here's some stuff you should read, and probably own, if you haven't/don't already, along with some quick plugs for some DVDs (released and yet to be released) that I'll be bringing up and blogging...
Ink and Paper (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Belle's Library is an Ink and Paper feature which shines the spotlight on beautiful libraries across the world - ones that inspire great awe and make you catch your breath when seeing them, like the library given to Belle in Beauty and the Beast. This week I'm featuring the Szabó Ervine Library in Budapest. Thank you so much to Szilvia Adrienn Szabó for letting me know about this gorgeous...
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Nick Gillespie reviews two new books on Rand, Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller and Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns: Has any major postwar American author taken as much critical abuse as Ayn Rand? Her best-known novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged , have sold more than 12 million copies in the United States alone and were ranked first...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Has any major postwar American author taken as much critical abuse as Ayn Rand? Her best-known novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged , have sold more than 12 million copies in the United States alone and were ranked first and second in a 1998 Modern Library reader survey of the "greatest books" of the 20th century. Yet over the years, Rand's writing has been routinely dismissed as juvenile...
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jetsz | 15/09/2009
Want to download "The World According to Garp" full movie online ? Read on as I share with you more about the movie and where to download "The World According to Garp". "Garp was a natural storyteller," says the narrator of John Irving's incandescent novel, referring to the book's hero, the novelist Garp, who has much in common with Irving himself. "He could make things up one right after the other,...
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