JOSE VS. THE MAN: Back in 1980, 18 years before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Jose Saramago was a newspaper deputy editor who got canned from his job (nobody treats deputy editors right, do they?). He penned a big, fat novel that lets us know exactly how he was feeling, "Raised from the … Continue reading Etc.: early Saramago, plus Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ meets poet Ted Hughes
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Belief’s in a bag of chips, or an ashtray: not-so-new in bookstores
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
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
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