Archive for August 2007
Thunderstruck
A little more than I year ago I finally read the Erik Larson blockbuster thriller, The Devil in the White City. I thoroughly enjoyed that book for a number of reasons: the book was factual, with hundreds of sources cited; it was set in nineteenth century America, a time and place with which I am […]
On the Road
In 2005, TIME magazine chose On the Road by Jack Kerouac as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to then. This largely autobiographical work is based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. Many consider this book the definitive work of the postwar Beat Generation– inspired […]
Chuck Klosterman IV
Chuck Klosterman has created a collection of previously published essays as Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas. The title is a tribute to Led Zeppelin’s untitled fourth album– commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV. He breaks the volume up into three sections: Things That Are True, Things That Might Be […]
