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Apr 5, 2017

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Edition

In ‘Gravity’s Rainbow,’ the Farce of War

From paranoia’s greatest poet.

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May 8, 2017

Shirley Jackson book, The Lottery and Other Stories, sitting on a bed of stones.

The Devil and Shirley Jackson

Her classic ode to the Daemon Lover.

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Jul 19, 2017

Self-Help and Self-Destruction: Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’

A crusader against bullshit.

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May 22, 2016

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

De nigger woman is de mule uh de world…

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Aug 2, 2016

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell (1933)

You have talked so often of going to the…

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Jan 4, 2017

Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring,’ Still Green After Fifty Years

A timeless polemic in defense of…

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Sep 8, 2017

The Mind of America in ‘The Paranoid Style’

Cranks, kooks, and mad prophets.

Sean McBrien in Bookland 978

Mar 13, 2016

The Return of the Solider

Rebecca West (1918)

“Ah, don’t begin to fuss!” wailed Kitty; “if a woman…

Sean McBrien in Bookland 978

May 15, 2016

Cheap books

It was a heavy weekend in Calgary for book sales. The CBC Calgary Reads sale and the Servants Anonymous sale were going on at the same time, which I don’t recall has ever happened before. The lady and I tried to restrain ourselves; came away with a modest haul:

Sean McBrien in Bookland 978

Apr 13, 2016

3. The Song Machine

The Song Machine

John Seabrook (2015)

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