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Books read 2022
Books! Best to worst. Colm Toibin, The Magician Superb. There is a serious factual error in the last chapter that I pointed out to Toibin on his website, but his response is nonexistent. Labatut, Benjamín, When We Cease to Understand the World Superb. Dan Charnas, dilla time Excellent narrative, thoroughly researched, brimming with ideas like the geographic grid […]
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Top ten albums of 2022
In our household albums are always 100% unstreamed, played from start to finish, never shuffled, and usually played from manufactured CDs or from purchased digital files that are burned to CDs. In alphabetical order by artist: Cat Power – Covers Jorge Drexler – Tinta y Tiempo Eliane Elias – Quietude Melody Gardot & Philippe Powell […]
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Books read 2021
Books! Best to worst. Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleischman Is in Trouble Excellent. I will read anything Taffy writes. P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves Flat-out great and hilarious. Mark Harris, Mike Nichols Immersive and deeply satisfying for a pop culture biography. Ron Brownstein, Rock Me on the Water Cultural history of California in the 1970s. Thich Nhat Hanh, How […]
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Top ten albums of 2021
In our household albums are always 100% unstreamed, played from start to finish, never shuffled, and usually played from manufactured CDs or from purchased digital files that are burned to CDs. In alphabetical order by artist: Elbow – Flying Dream 1 Kurt Elling – SuperBlue Márcio Faraco – L’électricien de la ville lumière Fleet Foxes […]
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Books read 2020
Books! Best to worst. Nate Chinen, Playing Changes Extraordinary essays on jazz and its recent history. Garth Greenwell, Cleanness Richly realized senses of dislocation and location. Andrea Camilleri, The Overnight Kidnapper Montalbano goodness. David Deutsch, Something about Infinity Well-written and thoughtful examination of creative explanations as a powerful source of knowledge and ultimately experience. Dismissals of […]
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Exponent and the Beirut explosion
Exponent, for whom I wrote two books, was in the news today with two of their engineers interviewed by Scientific American. Engineers Suzanne Smyth and Russell Ogle discuss their pursuit of the causes and origins of such fires and explosions in an attempt to prevent future disasters. Cause and effect are so often traceable as […]
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