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My fourth grade teacher, Ms. Rich, devoted part of each day to reading to the entire class. We’d squat down on the carpet around her desk and listen. There were only two authors I remember who got the honor of having more than one of their books read. One was Roald Dahl. The other was [...]
The December issue of Discover magazine calls scientist David Charbonneau the “scientist of the year†for research he’s done, but, strangely enough, the honor is being conferred mainly for what his research might reveal, not what it’s already uncovered. They’re not exaggerating when they compare the discovery of extraterrestrial life to Copernicus’s theory that the [...]
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One-thousand years (give or take a few centuries) after an anonymous poet wrote the epic Beowulf, the novelist, critic, translator, and short-story writer John Gardner wrote Grendel, a strange novel which gives us the story from the monster’s perspective. Gardner’s prose is heavy with adjectives and past-participles which helps give concreteness to Grendel’s stream-of-consciousness. The [...]
In an interview on G4 television’s Attack Of The Show, scriptwriters Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary said they’d never heard that Beowulf is a kind of Hollywood joke until they’d started working on a script. Other filmmakers have tried to bring Beowulf to the big screen, one of the most recent efforts being director Sturla [...]
Conventional wisdom holds that there are four tastes: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. The other day on NPR, though, it was reported that there’s a fifth taste, one that’s a little harder to define but which is currently being called “umami”, which is a Japanese word meaning “deliciousness”. And it’s fitting that it would be [...]
He may best be known for his book Wonder Boys, which was adapted into a film with Michael Douglas as a shambling wreck of a college professor, or his 2000 novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize, but Michael Chabon is a prolific and wide-ranging author. Most recently [...]
The recently opened Sherlock’s Book Emporium & Curiosities, in Lebanon, Tennessee, is, in many ways, itself a curiosity. While owner Steve Guynn opened his first bookstore as a way of getting his expanding book collection out of his house, the new 14,000-square foot store offers new books, used books, DVDs, board games, action figures, comic [...] |
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