Archive for January, 2005

The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater

Saturday, January 29th, 2005

And Other Figurative Photographs by Ralph Eugene Meatyard Edited by James Rhem ISBN: 1891024299

I find Meatyard's photography fascinating. I'm not always sure what I'm looking at, even when I know what it

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

Tuesday, January 18th, 2005

by Yann Martel ISBN: 0151010900

In his prefatory author’s note, Martel refers to the four stories in this collection as “the best results of my early years as a writer.” The other

Small Things Considered

Monday, January 10th, 2005

by Henry Petroski ISBN: 1400040507

I expected to like this book. Even after I started reading it, I still wanted to like this book. Yet I could barely finish it, because it

McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, No. 13

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

Edited by Chris Ware ISBN: 1932416080

Its a hardcover book, its a mini-comic, its the funny pages...

But there is no Superman. It is the alternative comics issue of McSweeney’s, Number 13.

As an