The Year of the Death of Jose Saramago

Please forgive the absence of any relevance this post has with Muni, but one of my favorite living authors has passed out of that category today.  Probably most well-known for his book “Blindness,” which I think was made into a movie at some point, Saramago was both unique and a natural extension of great Portuguese authors [...]

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Tonight: Bars

As in this woman has been behind them.  In what promises to be an interesting look behind the scenes gigantic walls of a women’s prison, Piper Kerman’s “Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison” will be presented at the Booksmith tonight. The Booksmith 1644 Haight St. 7:30 pm. You can get [...]

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Spotted: The Patient’s Privates (c)*

From randomhouse.com Rather, The Private Patient by P.D. James, in my continuing discovery of prolific and well-read authors of which I have never heard.  Apparently, this is the 14th book in the Adam Dalgliesh series.  P.D. James seems to specialize in detective and mystery novels, though, according the authoratative wiki, also seems to dabble in [...]

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De la mano de dios

After having been flummoxed for a good while now in my attempts to somehow bring up the World Cup on here (notwithstanding my last discussion of the intersection of sports and words), Alan Black and David Henry Sterry have come to the rescue (via SFist). Alan will be at the Booksmith tonight at 7:30 pm [...]

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