The Greatest Sports Book Ever Written…

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Sep 102007
 

Joseph O’Neill pro­files Beyond A Bound­ary — the C.L.R James book on cricket and the Car­ribean — in The Atlantic. Yes, cricket. Yes, in The Atlantic. No, you are not dreaming.

 Posted by Karthik at 3:54 pm

Wish I’d known that earlier :(

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Jul 302007
 

Accord­ing to the Times,

“THERE are many ways to con­sole some­one when a multimillion-dollar busi­ness deal falls through. Fir­ing off a “tough break” e-mail mes­sage punc­tu­ated by a frown-face emoti­con is not one of them.”

Really? :(

(via)

 Posted by Karthik at 3:09 pm

Reconstructing Harry

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Jul 112007
 

Michael Gold­en­berg, screen­writer for Harry Pot­ter and the Order of the Phoenix, talks to Salon about the “plea­sures and pit­falls” of the adap­ta­tion process.

 Posted by Karthik at 4:49 pm

Politically Incorrect Psychology

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Jul 112007
 

Why y’all will never have daugh­ters and why men who harass women are not sex­ist. These and other such polit­i­cally incor­rect truths… (via)

 Posted by Karthik at 9:30 am

More Sex Is Safer Sex

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Jul 092007
 

There is a new book called More Sex is Safer Sex and it is writ­ten by a male econ­o­mist called Lands­burg. Clever plan, Mr. Lands­burg. Here is a New York Times review of the book that ques­tions the value of the recent spate of “pop­u­lar” eco­nom­ics books that pur­port to unlock the mys­ter­ies of the world using cold, hard num­bers. And on a unre­lated note, here is James Surowiecki (whose book we loved!) on The Pirates’ Code.

 Posted by Karthik at 11:47 am

Stalin’s Ghost

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Jul 092007
 

Mar­tin Cruz Smith (MSNBC help­fully informs us that he is “one of those writ­ers who get such high-mindedly good reviews that you won­der if he’s any fun. Relax: he’s lit­er­ate and excit­ing”) has just writ­ten his newest Arkady Renko novel — it’s called Stalin’s Ghost — and the Times car­ries a high-mindedly good review of it. Mean­while, from Time Mag­a­zine, here is a review of Gorky Park, the first Arkady Renko book.

 Posted by Karthik at 10:43 am

The Five Second Rule Bites the Dust

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Jul 082007
 

Steel your­self for some bad news: Pesky sci­en­tists at Clem­son Uni­ver­sity have appar­ently deter­mined that apply­ing the five-second rule to dropped food will not actu­ally pre­vent the food from gath­er­ing bac­te­ria. And appar­ently, there is no excep­tion for key lime pies. No won­der sci­ence sucks.

 Posted by Karthik at 5:45 pm

John Irving on Peeling the Onion

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Jul 082007
 

A John Irv­ing review of  Gün­ter Grass’s Peel­ing the Onion. [etcetera: We’ll even read phone­books if Irv­ing writes them. ]


 Posted by Karthik at 12:49 pm

Murakami on Music

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Jul 082007
 

Haruki Murakami on music (and lan­guage). (Older Murakami posts [1] [2] [3] )

 Posted by Karthik at 12:43 pm

Indie Clarke

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Jul 062007
 

A few guys at Indus­trial Light and Magic are “work­ing on the side” mak­ing an Arthur C Clarke short story (Mael­strom II) into a movie. Wired has a few cool pic­tures. (via)

 Posted by Karthik at 4:29 pm
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