Category Archives: Books n’ things

Gloria Harrison’s “Let’s See How Fast This Baby Will Go”

I’m a sucker for all road/car narratives, but Gloria Harrison’s is one of the best–if not the best–I’ve ever read. She combines an artful matter-of-factness with a masterful ability to interweave personal history with the multivocal, character-infused present. And she’ll have you hooked from her opening paragraph: I wake up before 7:00 on the morningContinue reading “Gloria Harrison’s “Let’s See How Fast This Baby Will Go””

Remix, Revolution, Reinvention: The Hunting Party, Linkin Park’s Carnivores Tour

Linkin Park has long since fashioned itself as a jack-of-all-trades kind of band, hailing from the “hybrid theory” of rap-rock, directing animated music videos, producing artsy movies, designing their band artwork, participating (like many bands) in a baffling number of side-projects, promoting bizarre online/cell phone games based on their albums, apparently really liking The Transformers–evenContinue reading “Remix, Revolution, Reinvention: The Hunting Party, Linkin Park’s Carnivores Tour”

Review: The Extreme Life of the Sea, Stephen R. Palumbi and Anthony R. Palumbi (2014)

Palumbi, Stephen R. and Anthony R. Palumbi, The Extreme Life of the Sea. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Hardcover. $27.95 (US). Recently, I’ve been looking at the interstices between science and literature (and the humanities and social sciences at large). The Extreme Life of the Sea was written in partnership between marine scientist Stephen R.Continue reading “Review: The Extreme Life of the Sea, Stephen R. Palumbi and Anthony R. Palumbi (2014)”