It's a joke, right? What else are we supposed to think when someone claims to see an image of Jesus on a tortilla or the Virgin Mary on a piece of toast or the Buddha in a cluster of beehives? I had picked up the book "Look! It's Jesus! Amazing Holy Visions in Everyday Life" … Continue reading Belief’s in a bag of chips, or an ashtray: not-so-new in bookstores
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Chwast hits a Homer: new in bookstores
Can you handle epic poetry only in small doses? Recent books by renowned graphic designer and illustrator Seymour Chwast may be your answer. In his latest, "Homer: The Odyssey" (Bloomsbury), Chwast has given us a visual sibling to that famous series of classic condensations, "Cliffs Notes." Ok, that's a bit too reductive and unfair: Chwast … Continue reading Chwast hits a Homer: new in bookstores
How do you blurb this?
I don't envy the book publicist who's trying to pull blurbs from the "Books of the Year" list in the latest edition of the Times Literary Supplement. There are plenty of raves among the 47 writers and critics listed there -- one of them, in fact, is my favorite Tolkien critic, Tom Shippey, on Nancy … Continue reading How do you blurb this?
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