Beatrice (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
In the last five years, since the publication of Mr. Timothy, Louis Bayard has become one of our leading authors of historical thrillers—but, he told me when we met in Washington, D.C., last month, “It’s not a niche I ever defined for myself. I just walked right into it.” After writing two contemporary gay romantic [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Gladwell's books would be more intellectually honest if he simply dispensed with his frameworks altogether, but then ... he wouldn't be the cultural figure he is now. Like 'Freakanomics' guru Steven Levitt, Gladwell promises to unravel our knottiest problems with the simplest of paradigms. By turning the macro into micro, he frees life of its chaos. Gladwell, in short, is in the hope business. Louis...
Buzz, Balls & Hype (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
It's been a while since I've fallen in love with a book that I love as much as The Black Tower by Louis Bayard. As readers of this blog know I don't review books, but here's what Bookmarks magazine said...
Inside the Lakers (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... Dustin Lance Black (pictured, above), Tom Rob Smith, Mart Crowley, Kenyon Farrow, Gregory Maguire, Louis Bayard, Kate Bornstein, Alex Ross, Amy Scholder, Gregg Araki, Candis Cayne, Joel Tan, Guillermo Diaz, Jason Dottley, Kimberly Peirce, Del Shores, David Marshall Grant, Maurice Jamal, Patrick Sean Smith, Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen, Sia Furler.
USA Today (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
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findingDulcinea (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... that his six-season role had helped pave the way for Obama’s presidential candidacy. Salon’s Louis Bayard, running through numerous media portrayals of black presidents, agreed. “[I]t’s hard to deny that six years of the Palmer brothers have inured a whole segment of Fox America to the sight of black faces in the Oval Office. But, in fact, the Palmers are just the latest milepost...
Pop + Politics (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... for TV’s “24″ had helped to prepare Americans for the idea of a black man in the Oval Office. Louis Bayard of Salon.com argues that it may not be just Haysbert, but that a progressive trend has been at play for some time. TV News will do a techno-blitzkrieg on Election Day , with hologram correspondents, a huge interactive map projected onto the Rockefeller Plaza ice rink, and live...
Pop + Politics (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... for TV’s “24″ had helped to prepare Americans for the idea of a black man in the Oval Office. Louis Bayard of Salon.com argues that it may not be just Haysbert, but that a progressive trend has been at play for some time. TV News will do a techno-blitzkrieg on Election Day , with hologram correspondents, a huge interactive map projected onto the Rockefeller Plaza ice rink, and live...
Isak (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
Over at Salon, Louis Bayard has a write up about Margaret Atwood's latest nonfiction turn:If nothing else, Margaret Atwood has a gift for timing. Her 1986 futuristic dystopia, "The Handmaid's Tale," arrived at the precise cultural moment when theocracy was...
Follow Me Here... (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
Louis Bayard reviews “Society Without God" : "Imagine the unimaginable: Todd Palin picking out curtain patterns for the vice-presidential mansion. In such an eventuality, whither shall we flee?" (Salon)
