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2010.01.07: Or: Stanley Kowalski with a collection of first editions
2009.10.27: My TV interview with Oscar Casares
2009.08.06: Big-City Texas in the '80s: Black Water Rising
2009.07.15: Fluxus in Texas
2009.06.10: All that glitters can be sold
2009.06.05: Money for Art, Pt. 2: Replaying the '50s and '90s
2009.05.30: Money for Art, Pt 1: Arts Funding in America
2009.05.16: Reasons to be cheerful, Part 7
2009.03.05: Horton Foote: An Appreciation
2009.02.11: Review: Germania by Brendan McNally
2009.02.03: Review: The Big Rich by Bryan Burrough
2009.01.15: New book on Texas blues: Just in time for the return of President Bush
2008.12.09: Print arts coverage dwindling away . . .
2008.12.06: The Great Sam
2008.11.26: Well ... you know.
2008.11.07: Richard Wright's centennial: A symposium
2008.11.03: Cause for celebration: new bookstores
2008.11.03: Literal-minded
2008.11.03: Texas Books, Texas Politics
2008.10.14: book/daddy knows an 'older genius' -- and it's not himself
2008.10.06: Not a book, but a play -- so sue me.
2008.09.24: Most Honorable Urgent Financial Transaction, Please
2008.09.17: But -- why?
2008.09.05: Kindling
2008.08.25: Apologies.
2008.08.12: The Dallas Myth: A Review
2008.08.04: Look to the skies!
2008.07.26: Black and white and brain dead all over.
2008.07.25: Cozying up to Kara?
2008.07.25: New frontiers in book storage.
2008.07.17: Books, books, books and "Books"
2008.07.03: Mayborn aborning
2008.06.23: "Not another incisive book reviewer!" Tom said, critically.
2008.06.23: By their semi-colons ye shall know them.
2008.06.17: Shameless Plug
2008.06.10: Excuses.
2008.06.06: So .... you want to be Iron Man?
2008.06.03: Fafblog is back. Thank the Giblets.
2008.05.28: It's here.
2008.05.21: Busy days, doing stuff, blogging .... um, yes?
2008.05.11: Rounding up up up
2008.05.09: Mommy is just like the Ugly Duckling. But hotter and with a thong.
2008.05.06: There Will Be Phlegm.
2008.05.05: Laughing all the way to the Cartoon Bank
2008.04.27: Cults! Sexbots! Con artists! So it's another Monday roundup.
2008.04.24: Middleton only middling?
2008.04.23: Hitchens in hindsight/oversight
2008.04.21: Rounding upward
2008.04.20: David Mamet and the intellectual right-hand turn
2008.04.14: Not about books, but hey, it's about the Bard
2008.04.10: A big independent bookstore -- in Dallas??!
2008.04.06: Mini-Monday round-up
2008.04.01: One more for the Honors List
2008.03.28: In book/daddy's secret alternate identity ...
2008.03.23: Back with the round-up!
2008.03.19: Replace "art" with "literature" --
2008.03.16: Elliot Spitzer and the Elucidation of Shakespeare
2008.03.14: The death of the critic?
2008.03.13: "Much have I traveled in the realms of ... oops?
2008.03.11: Review: Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan
2008.03.06: New?
2008.03.05: It's new! It's happening! It's ... well, it's more authors talking about books.
2008.03.02: Good morning, Monday round-up!
2008.03.02: Review: Lush Life, by Richard Price
2008.03.01: Fame. Of a sort.
2008.03.01: Ta-dah: the new job.
2008.02.26: Old Yellow Hair
2008.02.26: Thrilled
2008.02.26: Quills are plucked
2008.02.24: Not drowning, not yet.
2008.02.19: Mucho apologies
2008.02.13: We conquered the computers. Now they work for US.
2008.02.08: A little lesson -- OK, a rant -- about a popular font
2008.02.06: The well-read gentleman
2008.02.06: The Migratory and Mating Habits of Librarians
2008.02.03: Two-timing Tudors: A DVD Review
2008.01.30: Finally. Or inevitably.
2008.01.29: Cheer up
2008.01.25: Look what I found in Bookforum
2008.01.24: Lumbering
2008.01.23: You see, I was too working on something
2008.01.22:
2008.01.21: Ah, the Golden Age of media punditry
2008.01.21: MLK round-up
2008.01.18: Vomit, blood and comic indignities: diet book reviewing done right
2008.01.17: The decline in reading: take 27
2008.01.15: Late to the party, as always
2008.01.15: Review: Geraldine Brooks' People of the Book
2008.01.14: True Story
2008.01.14: 50 years on
2008.01.12: Extra-rich round-up with your vente latte this morning
2008.01.11: Sorry, busy week
2008.01.06: Wake up, it's the Monday Round-Up
2008.01.04: No flash in the pan
2008.01.03: Meta-Jamesiana
2008.01.02:
2008.01.01: Bravo, New Orleans
2007.12.31: The last round-up of the year!
2007.12.27: Getting pretty hairy
2007.12.22: So this is Christmas ...
2007.12.20: Notes before the Nativity
2007.12.18: The trouble with squiggles
2007.12.17:
2007.12.16: Losing one's marbles: It's a Monday
2007.12.16: Hathos to you, too, bub
2007.12.16: Do Ants Have Arseholes?
2007.12.16: MLK Day has come early for the Dallas Morning News' Sunday op-ed section
2007.12.14:
2007.12.11: Get your game face on
2007.12.09: You really can learn a lot from political attack ads
2007.12.09: John Hodgman in comic book form
2007.12.08:
2007.12.08: Golden lad and lass
2007.12.06: Spy vs. Spy
2007.12.05: Take an interdisciplinary blog tour
2007.12.04: Mr. Warmth
2007.12.03: In case anyone's interested ...
2007.12.02: The Lost Boys
2007.12.01: Floats like a matress, sleeps like Lunesta
2007.11.26: Sooooo ...
2007.11.25: Our Weekly Reader
2007.11.22: THE REVIEWS:
2007.11.22: Going home with a glass o' Guiness
2007.11.22: Hodgman Matters
2007.11.21: A smart person like you, you've probably noticed ...
2007.11.20: Eye candy
2007.11.20: The rage of the educated class
2007.11.19: Of money shots, shaved biscuits and sex with snails
2007.11.19: Hunter-gatherers
2007.11.19: Beaten to a pulp
2007.11.18: The Popular Front in action
2007.11.16: Puttin' on the Fritz: A review of Frankenstein: A Cultural History
2007.11.16: Apologies: Blogging will resume
2007.11.11: At least my name got spelled right
2007.11.11: Black and white and read all over
2007.11.11: So far, for my money ...
2007.11.10:
2007.11.10: The Love That Didn't Make Up Its Mind
2007.11.10: Revolution #12
2007.11.10: Official programming announcement
2007.11.09: Round-up. Or considering these items, maybe "Wind-down" would be better
2007.11.08: The Irrelevance of Book Blogs and the Significance of Jessa Crispin: An Essay
2007.11.08: Having a nodding acquaintance with the book you just read
2007.11.07: Review: Double-billed
2007.11.07: Review: Hack and Slash
2007.11.05: Knowing a real-life character from a Philip Roth novel
2007.10.31: The Sun also sets
2007.10.29: Mark your calendars, kids
2007.10.23: All fogged up
2007.10.23: Further adventures in our democratic legal system
2007.10.18: You teach a class on Poe, defending the poor bastard the whole time, and then this ...
2007.10.17: Wicked distaff wittery dispensed
2007.10.16: What, ho, a play?
2007.10.15: Lackwit
2007.10.14: With all of the 50th anniversary, baby boomer-Cold War nostalgia over Sputnik the past month ...
2007.10.12: Republic.com 2.0: A Review
2007.10.11: Good questions
2007.10.11: Screwing with our minds
2007.10.07: Wait, it's Monday again, already?
2007.10.06: Keeping us safe
2007.10.04: Just playing braindead: A review
2007.10.03: Improving the site for your edification
2007.09.29: Good stuff
2007.09.28: Typical overheard conversation in a Dallas dry cleaner.
2007.09.27: The Greater Shakespeare Tube Map
2007.09.25: Civility
2007.09.25: The TV Way: a review
2007.09.23: Because the story required the photo, that's why
2007.09.22: ESSAY:
2007.09.22: b/d forgives bookslut a lot for moments like this ...
2007.09.19: Brush up your aesthetics
2007.09.17: Sam I Am
2007.09.17: Grub Street, here I come
2007.09.16: P is for Prue who died from poetry adaptations
2007.09.15: The life of the mind, in 3 parts
2007.09.13: Tea and sympathy
2007.09.12: Walllace and Gromit meet Jorge Luis Borges. Sort of.
2007.09.11: Radio receiving
2007.09.11: The rise, the fall and the absorption of the intellectual
2007.09.09: Battling over the Bard
2007.09.08: Eliot Fremont-Smith has died.
2007.09.08: Oh my Gawd. It worked.
2007.09.07: Peeping at Pepys' private life
2007.09.07: Bawdy Yarns
2007.09.06: 8 Easy Steps to Understanding Bestsellers
2007.09.05:
2007.09.05: Objects in mirror are larger than they appear
2007.09.04: Not I
2007.09.04: The future of literary criticism is a pink cloud. Or a big cheese. Take your pick.
2007.09.04: The semiotics of selling out start here.
2007.09.04: Trumpet fanfare
2007.09.03: See Steve, See CJR
2007.08.30: The Hellfire Club
2007.08.28: Sweet Thames, run softly til I end my video clip
2007.08.28: And a soft "hurrah" courses through the house
2007.08.27: Getting Wood
2007.08.26: Oh, THOSE barbarian hordes
2007.08.26: Ssssmokin! A review
2007.08.26: "Our two main weapons are fear, surprise and -- Our THREE main weapons are ..."
2007.08.26: It's not available online, of course ....
2007.08.24: The Exception: a philosophical thriller
2007.08.20: Free radicals
2007.08.19: Speed demons
2007.08.19: Covering up
2007.08.19: Fifty years on: The Secret Can Now Be Told
2007.08.17: Ann Hath a Way, still
2007.08.16: All My Sons
2007.08.15: Someone notify Elizabeth Wurtzel
2007.08.15: Future fears in flyover country
2007.08.13: Tinker, tailor, author, wizard
2007.08.12: Updating
2007.08.11: A study from life
2007.08.11: Clash of the Titans
2007.08.10: Didn't know it was on
2007.08.09: The man who let him wake up, famous
2007.08.08: Potshots
2007.08.08: Useful AND decorative
2007.08.07: ESSAY:
2007.08.07: Look on My Works, ye Mighty, and Despair!
2007.08.05: Snapshots
2007.08.05: Odd but appreciated
2007.08.05: Mobile units
2007.08.03: Where now? Who now? When now?
2007.08.02: Another savage expose of the publishing industry
2007.08.02: This just in: Water is wet
2007.08.01: ESSAY:
2007.08.01: We're becoming like the French
2007.07.31: A test, this is only a test
2007.07.30: Oh, that new Nan Talese/Oprah dust-up?
2007.07.30: Fine new column, same old town
2007.07.29: No, but it might make him an honorary Texan
2007.07.28: Why didn't someone tell me?? Couldn't we have passed the hat or something?
2007.07.26: Hosannah in the lowest: An essay on book reviewing
2007.07.23: Bookbuying made easy
2007.07.23: Business lessons
2007.07.22: Let the midnight special shine her light on me
2007.07.19: After FEMA, is there still "a house in New Orleans/They call the Rising Sun"?
2007.07.17: Remember the Maine
2007.07.17: Fame has arrived, at last
2007.07.17: Sound the retreat
2007.07.17: Fry-ed is better
2007.07.16: Peeping Toms
2007.07.16: It's complicated but it's still good
2007.07.16: Some people ...
2007.07.12: ESSAY:
2007.07.11: book/daddy won't stand for these insults. He'll sit, instead
2007.07.09: Much the most sensible discussion
2007.07.09: Continued obliviousness
2007.07.05: Where it is also raining
2007.07.05: Comics? Comix? Respect?
2007.07.05: "It's ALL OVER, people!"
2007.07.04: The results are in ...
2007.07.04: Lighten up, Eddie
2007.07.03: Hydraulics, water pressure, that sort of thing
2007.06.28: If the creek don't rise, if the levee don't break ...
2007.06.28: We have another winner!
2007.06.28: Have I mentioned Scott McLemee?
2007.06.27: Um, sorry.
2007.06.25: Good posts about bad news
2007.06.24: "You don't know me! I can do what I want!"
2007.06.21: What with the floods, the rains ...
2007.06.18: Spring non-awakening
2007.06.14: Not to keep plugging Taylor Mali or anything ...
2007.06.14: And then there were three ...
2007.06.13: Taking cuts
2007.06.11: Dr. Jekyll and Miss Thang
2007.06.10: Inhumane Resource Center
2007.06.09: book/daddy's wife teaches at a Dallas public school ...
2007.06.07: Lazarus returns
2007.05.29: Eastward, ha
2007.05.28: Yo ho, me heartless hearties
2007.05.27: Maybe it's because no one over there is going to edit him
2007.05.27: Why we so dumb, scientifickle-like
2007.05.23: Just who is this guy?
2007.05.21: A minority report
2007.05.18: Flip, meet Flop
2007.05.18: Where book/daddy?
2007.05.15: Falling/Rising
2007.05.14: "Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends ..."
2007.05.12: Corollary question, more out of curiosity
2007.05.10: 9/11 as a novel: Why?
2007.05.10: "We're winning the war against reading!"
2007.05.09: A pack of dogs ...
2007.05.07: Bill Bryson: "Crazy as fuck but adorable to the tiniest degree"
2007.05.05: Of jobs, justice and peach dumplings
2007.05.03: Unemployment
2007.05.02: It's amazing ...
2007.05.02: More on "No more book reviews .... "
2007.04.30: The black echo, indeed
2007.04.29: Slings and arrows
2007.04.28: There is no god.
2007.04.26: Canary in a coal mine
2007.04.25: One of the earliest animated films ever ...
2007.04.25: The gift that keeps on giving
2007.04.23: The Campaign to Save Book Reviews
2007.04.22: It's the phlegm, pholks
2007.04.21: Narrative nonfiction
2007.04.21: Time to put an asterisk on the ol' resume
2007.04.20: Wish I'd Said That
2007.04.19: It continues.
2007.04.18: Six Flags Over Dickens
2007.04.17: Posting
2007.04.16: I must second and third and fourth ...
2007.04.16: Guyana Punch Drunk
2007.04.16: Will I get a cut of the profits, you think?
2007.04.13: Curious: A Vonnegut consideration
2007.04.13: We have another winner.
2007.04.11: Lesson in map reading
2007.04.11: We have a winner.
2007.04.11: Playgirls
2007.04.11: All hail LitMinds!
2007.04.10: O, weep for Adonais -- for he is being adapted by Hollywood
2007.04.10: The first-ever magic book ...
2007.04.09: Counter-counter-intelligence
2007.04.06: Dickinson in Dallas
2007.04.05: America's leading intellectual fascist ...
2007.04.05: Not that it will matter to most book/daddy readers ...
2007.04.04: Nostalgia de la boue, indeed
2007.04.02: Everything dieth, everying blossometh forth again
2007.03.30: A lovely digital representation ...
2007.03.30: Colm and Sam ... and me
2007.03.29: Funny ha-ha or funny-stupid
2007.03.28: Shakespeare's (mildly) bawdy
2007.03.27: Heated history
2007.03.27: I wish we printed an article like this ...
2007.03.26: Oh Lord, more elves
2007.03.26: Borges and the blogosphere
2007.03.22: The disappearing book pages:
2007.03.22: Genial unctuosity
2007.03.22: Mad?/Not Mad?
2007.03.22: Thrillers and Lists:
2007.03.22: Archival
2007.03.21: The Bush Presidential Memory Hole: Oh lovely. His shrine will be near my house
2007.03.21: The lady knows her shit
2007.03.19: Spy vs Spy:
2007.03.18: Dragging out the dead
2007.03.17: Bio-Mass
2007.03.15: Velvet reflections
2007.03.15: Taken back, taken aback
2007.03.15: Shaken
2007.03.14: Illiterates
2007.03.13: Book reviews, future of -- from another source
2007.03.13: In-law report
2007.03.13: Go West
2007.03.12: A further note on "Finn"
2007.03.12: You may laugh ...
2007.03.10: The American Historical Association vs. the Bush administration
2007.03.09: The National Book Critics Circle Awards ...
2007.03.09: Naming names
2007.03.08: Tombs of the Pharaohs
2007.03.07: A brief digression into politics, the law and comedy
2007.03.06: Told ya, twice
2007.03.06: Book reviews and ad revenues
2007.03.05: Schlesinger, revisited
2007.03.05: More on less
2007.03.05: Green light
2007.03.04: Celebrate -- and answer some espionage questions
2007.03.02: Thank goodness for Critical Mass ...
2007.03.02: High praise: A murderous father, a famous son and was Huck black?
2007.03.01: Arthur Schlesinger, RIP
2007.02.28: Told ya
2007.02.28: Horn tootling
2007.02.27: IS a change gonna come?
2007.02.25: Book chat, book laffs
2007.02.21: Not quite winning: a review
2007.02.20: Deep-sixing "24"
2007.02.19: Down and Out
2007.02.18: The dog ate my homework.
2007.02.15: Duelling bozos
2007.02.14: Phlegmatic
2007.02.13: Thankful for little things
2007.02.12: Isn't it ironic?
2007.02.10: Thrilled all over
2007.02.09: Good benefits package, I bet
2007.02.09: Red means widespread
2007.02.08: Bringing the war back home
2007.02.07: Syncopatin' with Chris
2007.02.07: Jim and George
2007.02.07: Bookstores and buggy whips
2007.02.06: Mentoring
2007.02.05: If you're in the area ...
2007.02.05: It's on the front page
2007.02.02: On The Road, again
2007.02.01: In memory of Molly
2007.01.29: So THAT's where Narnia is
2007.01.28: How we pick 'em ....
2007.01.28: There have been alarums and distress calls ...
2007.01.28: The Bush library: a smart compromise?
2007.01.26: Bookstore bounceback?
2007.01.26: Second thoughts on Alan Furst
2007.01.24: A quick update ...
2007.01.22: It WOULD be this week, wouldn't it?
2007.01.20: The NBCC nominees ...
2007.01.18: Top prize
2007.01.18: Lay down some more newspapers ...
2007.01.17: Being right ...
2007.01.17: Of historical proportions. Or hysterical.
2007.01.17: Sibling surprise
2007.01.14: A really disappointing list ....
2007.01.13: Spooky
2007.01.11: Tom DeLay IS Jean-Claude van Damme.
2007.01.11: Why have any editors choosing books at all?
2007.01.11: Told ya
2007.01.10: Nadine would seem to have been right ...
2007.01.09: I like the one about "Pub date"
2007.01.09: For those who thought my post was unkind to PR assistants...
2007.01.08: Sucking up
2007.01.06: This game's a winner
2007.01.04: Chewing the bookfat
2007.01.03: A threnody: books and arts coverage
2006.12.31: It was Colonel Mustard all along, right?
2006.12.27: Funny thing
2006.12.27: It's the system that's the monster
2006.12.22: Spinnish, camouflanguage and those vital vortals
2006.12.21: Offline, again?
2006.12.19: Frat boys of the 18th century
2006.12.16: The answer: less than a month
2006.12.15: I'm off . . .
2006.12.11: Make 'em laugh
2006.12.11: Wouldn't you know it ...
2006.12.08: Farewell, Black Images
2006.12.08: The mainstream and the mire
2006.12.07: Pynchon caught on camera
2006.12.06: I Spy, thrice
2006.12.06: Hatred and the Hitch
2006.12.03: Completing my favorites, 2006
2006.12.03: The Glass Book and the Last Book
2006.12.03: 'tis the season ...
2006.12.02: Last word on Judy, OJ and Rupert
2006.11.29: Chain, chain, chain
2006.11.29: Just in time
2006.11.27: In the Shadow of the King
2006.11.27: Failing to cross the Alps, again
2006.11.26: Hole in the Atlantic
2006.11.24: The Dave Hickey excerpts, cont'd
2006.11.23: What we always thought about Mitch Albom ...
2006.11.22: I Spy, too
2006.11.22: A career in journalism
2006.11.21: An author's line I'd heard somewhere ...
2006.11.21: Good neighbors and all that
2006.11.20: OJ gone
2006.11.20: Not so much "Against the Day" as very much with it ...
2006.11.20: Gold star for Gold Medal
2006.11.19: Valediction
2006.11.18: I Spy (a detour)
2006.11.14: Pynched
2006.11.14: I Spy
2006.11.14: The T-Shirt of the Guitar Gods
2006.11.13: Meta-movies
2006.11.10: In Flanders fields the poppies grow
2006.11.10: Farewell, Ellen Willis
2006.11.09: The unexamined life
2006.11.09: Airing out
2006.11.07: Necking
2006.11.06: An American wins the Goncourt
2006.11.06: Timely
2006.11.06: Sam's centenary
2006.11.04: Another way of looking at Jane Smiley
2006.11.04: Not for breakfast reading ...
2006.11.03: Thrilled again
2006.11.02: Spy vs Spy
2006.11.01: Frayn and Monty Python's "real pissant"
2006.11.01: Bending my arm ...
2006.10.31: Giggle and snicker
2006.10.30: Striking real gold
2006.10.30: Snapshots from Austin
2006.10.29: My Beef with the TBF
2006.10.27: Late night thoughts from the Texas Book Festival
2006.10.27: A tall latte with skim milk, no side order of crap, please
2006.10.26: Me and 'chiko and the Shakes
2006.10.26: My departure (and the Collapse of Books Coverage)
2006.10.26: On the road
2006.10.25: Absolutely nothing to do with books ...
2006.10.25: They Already Said That
2006.10.25: This isn't going to be easy
2006.10.25: THRILLERS AND LISTS, the finale
2006.10.24: Wizardly
2006.10.23: THRILLERS AND LISTS, PT 2
2006.10.22: Welcome to the Jungle
2006.10.22: Best Blog Entry, ever
2006.10.22: Bye bye, Charles
2006.10.21: Hello, Charles
2006.10.20: blogroll
2006.10.20: Truth or mouthiness
2006.10.20: Truth and Eavesdropping/Visa rejection
2006.10.19: The Golden Age of the Hollywoodized Novel
2006.10.18: THRILLERS AND LISTS, PT 1
2006.10.17: Walll, walll, ya see ...
2006.10.03: A professional critic
2006.09.27:
2006.05.27: Contact me

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