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The Bizarro Hagiographer

Books & Culture reviews James J. O'Donnell's new book, Augustine: A New Biography, and finds it wanting, to say the least. Link [http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2005/005/6.14.html]. Excerpts: > A reader of this book will be left wondering how Augustine could

Waugh Me

The American Conservative's forthcoming issue has an excellent piece about Evelyn Waugh (no link available). Written by R.J. Stove, the article is filled with samples of Waugh's ridiculously clever (albeit borderline cruel) literary criticism. It's also filled with great passages from Waugh'

Terrible Ted's New Book

We earlier (link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/2090/]) recommended Theodore Dalrymple's new book, Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1566636434/thedailyeudem-20], even though we hadn't read it yet. Well, our copy arrived

Joseph (not Juan) Epstein

Mindlessly surfing while working off the effects of an evening at the drinking club, we ran across this nice overview of the work of our favorite essayist, Joseph Epstein. Link [http://www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/jepstein.html]. Excerpt: > "I have always thought," says Joseph Epstein, "that

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

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

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

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)