To: Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times From: A news junkie/former newspaper reporter Re: Improvements I have been pretty critical of The New York Times since I started writing this media analysis column. In “Adapt or Be Left Behind”, I criticized your newspaper for its inept handling …
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NaNoWriMo Notes 6: First Week and a Title
I have to admit that after my opening day butterflies I've been having a hoot.
Read More »Book Review: Discovering Dorothea
If you come across information your subject would not have wanted known to posterity, what should you do with it?
Read More »Book Review: A Puzzled Heart
The book suggests it's different to most in the mystery genre because the first two adult characters encountered are lesbian.
Read More »Jessica! Ashlee! Simpsons Together Again For the First Time
Blonde and babe-ilicious sisters on the cover of TEEN PEOPLE.
Read More »Book Review: My Very Own Murder
Chick-lit disguised as a cozy mystery-- a pleasant but unsubstantial read.
Read More »A Russian Princess, a Lot of Science, and a Bit of Sex
Ekaterina Dashkova was a pioneering science administrator and linguist. So she's best known as Catherine the Great's "tester" of men.
Read More »Book Review: Reading Families: Women’s Literate Practice in Late Medieval England
Women were, through this engagement with the written word, beginning the long, tortuous climb into the public world.
Read More »Book Review: TCP/IP Guide
If TCP/IP technology is at all important to your job, pick up a copy of this book.
Read More »Book Reviews: Lucky You and Roadkill
There are few writers who can be as consistently bizarre as Carl Hiaasen. Kinky Friedman, though, is such a man.
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