If you didn’t “Listen to Your Mother” last night at the Crest Theater, you missed it.
Read the Rest!Counsel Stedman Responds
To my fellow Goodreads members: Hope you followed my prompt and took the chance to ask M. L. Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans–the Indie Book of the Year this year–a question last Friday.
Read the Rest!The Sun’s Trial Offer–Mental Decongestant
If you don’t already know how I feel about The Sun magazine, read this.
Read the Rest!Goodreads: M. L. Stedman Q & A
Earlier this year, I read, enjoyed, and reviewed M. L. Stedman‘s breakout novel, The Light Between Oceans. (It was a selection of the CapRadio Reads book club.)
Read the Rest!Thank You, Capital Public Radio!
A heart-felt “Thank You!” to our CapRadio Reads book club monitor, Vicki Lorini, for the VIP treatment we members received at last night’s launch party in Davis for John Lescroart‘s latest offering, The Ophelia Cut.
Read the Rest!Dr. Barry: “If I Wasn’t a Pharmacist, I Would Have Been a…”
Today, guest blogger Dr. Barry Pascal recounts the story of how the sight of Mickey Spillane’s obituary transported him into a brief, parallel career in another dimension. (It’s not clear from his account who had to wipe up the drool off the pharmacy counter.)
Read the Rest!Tom Diaz & I—My NRA Experience
Picking up from Tuesday’s post, Tom Diaz & I—The 94th & 103rd Congresses, and Now: By far, the strongest impressions left on me by the whole experience came from our interactions with representatives of the NRA and their allies. This is not your father’s organization.
Read the Rest!The Man Who Rode the Comet
One Hundred thirteen years ago last Sunday, America’s Shakespeare—Samuel Langhorne Clemens, writing and lecturing as the more familiar “Mark Twain“–left this mortal coil as Halley’s Comet approached, just as he’d come in 77 years earlier.
Read the Rest!Tom Diaz & I—The 94th & 103rd Congresses, and Now
After I’d read, mostly agreed with, and reviewed Tom Diaz’ The Last Gun (see last Friday’s post), I was curious about his background beneath the usual book blurbs, so I scratched a little deeper.
Read the Rest!“The Last Gun:” Gun Violence, the NRA & Its Allies
Suppose we approached the problem of gun violence in America in the same manner as other significant public health hazards—such as, say, passenger vehicle fatalities and injuries—by using data analysis, science, and innovation to make a useful but demonstrably dangerous instrumentality safer?
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