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Brews You Can Use II

Great passage from Steven Shapin's essay/review of Tom Standage's A History of the World in 6 Glasses in The New Yorker: > The taking of certain drinks could itself be society-making. The Greek symposium was, literally, a “drinkingtogether,” and the watered wine was both such

Another Way to Get Your Warhol Fifteen

> How much would you pay to be immortalized as a zombie in a Stephen King novel or a good guy in a John Grisham thriller? > King and Grisham are among 16 authors selling the right to have a character in a book named for the buyer to raise

Jonathan Holmes Swift

And the Karamazov brothers were gay: > A Russian book publisher claims the original version of Gulliver's Travels was a pornographic novel. . . > Hermann Real, director of the Ehrenpreis Center for Swift Studies based in Germany and one of the world's leading experts on the writer,

Guy Rants

Bernard Chapin at Crux reviews Thomas Ellis' The Rantings of a Single Male: Losing Patience with Feminism, Political Correctness, and Basically Everything [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0976261308/thedailyeudem-20]. Pretty good, hard-hitting stuff. Link [http://www.cruxmag.com/SingleMaleAlone.htm]. Excerpt: > [H]is title is oddly

Epstein on Hollywood

America's best essayist is Joseph Epstein. We have a collection of books by Epstein, most of which are collections of his essays. When we find an Epstein essay on-line, especially a new one, we're ecstatic, especially if it's in an area that interests us

Threefer

Perhaps it's shameful on our part, but we're going to (try to) start a blog meme, one of those chain-blog messages that bloggers pass among each other. It's simple: 1. Name your three biggest non-reference books (excluding the Bible and text books). 2. Name

Far Out

> Fittingly, it's been a long journey. After years of wandering, Beat writer Jack Kerouac's On the Road is finally jumping from the page to the screen. Francis Ford Coppola – whose American Zoetrope production company has owned the film rights to the classic road-trip novel since

Defending Kirk

American Spectator apparently ran an article critical of Russell Kirk's ghost stories (occasioned by the recently-issued Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/080283938X/thedailyeudem-20]). We're a fan of Kirk's fiction, so were glad to see that

New Online Encyclopedia

James Randi has put his Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural online. Interesting stuff. Link [http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/].

On Used Books

The New York Times printed an interesting piece about the economics of used books. Link [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/technology/28scene.html?ex=1280203200&en=33765024cbf62d4c&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&NYT_REG_SUCKS] . According to the article, used books probably