Charlie Rose with Charles Kuralt; Robert Harris; Dan Kraus & Laurie Marker-Kraus; Umberto Eco (November 24, 1995)
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
A judge today removed Robert Harris as the temporary co-executor of his dead wife's estate as family members on both sides wrestle for control of Joan Baruffaldi's...
MoreMonmouthMusings (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
TRENTON, NJ – Governor-Elect Chris Christie announced today members of the Transition Counsel, as well as members of the Economic Development and Growth, Education, Treasury, Labor and Workforce Development and the Office of the Governor Transition Sub-Committees. These sub-committees will conduct a top to bottom review of their respective government department and agency. Transition Counsel...
Raedwald (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Sir John Chilcot will formally start his inquiry tomorrow, on terms of reference which exceed the narrow non-judgemental remit wanted by Brown's government. At some time before the election, Blair himself will be called to give evidence. A year ago, observers poo-poohed the idea of Blair ever facing legal charges over his lies and deceptions, but notes of uncertainty are creeping in. The leaking over...
Malcolm Redfellow revivus (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The excellence of Richard J. Evans There's a small pile of unread fiction beside Malcolm's desk. Another on his bedside table. In the usual run of things, Nine Dragons, the 14th Harry Bosch, would be a day's non-work. Robert Harris's Lustrum , Cicero 2 , would be not much longer. James Ellroy's Blood's a Rover , completing the Underworld USA trilogy, might demand a bit longer. All of those have been...
Reading matters (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road has been chosen as the best book of the decade by The Times. The newspaper compiled a list of 100 books, an incredibly eclectic mix of fiction and non-fiction, with some intriguing choices, including the following books reviewed on Reading Matters: Unless by Carol Shields Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson Cloud...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
While, in all honesty, it seems a bit too early to name the books that have most defined the opening decade of the 21st century--the so-called noughties--Britain’s Daily Telegraph has taken a crack at doing just that. Its top five picks are J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father , Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code , Dave Eggers’...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Here's a video clip of Gordon Willis accepting his Life Achievement Award at last night's 2009 Governor's Awards in Hollywood. And here's a Scene Unseen podcast interview with Willis from June 2007. And here's a chat I had with Willis about a year ago regarding Robert Harris's Godfather restoration. Here also are Caleb Deschanel's remarks about Willis during . (I'm not likely to ever forget the term...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I've just watched the first half of the new Gone With The Wind Bluray, and I'm truly dazzled. No, levitated. This is by far the most beautifully rendered old-time Technicolor film I've ever seen on a high-def system -- razor-sharp, pulsing with color, pretty close to grain-free and significantly upgraded over the 2004 DVD version, which was excellent for what it was. I haven't talked to Robert Harris...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
On tour for his novel set during the Roman empire, former political journalist and best-selling author Robert Harris talks frankly about Tony Blair, almost draws a complete blank on Brian Cowen and defends his old friend Roman Polanski, writes
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
I got an email from them about their site and, I must admit, it was the first time I’d heard of it. So I went over there and tried it out. I’m currently reading Imperium, by Robert Harris, on my Kindle and so I tried it out on that. It found the book [...]
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
I picked this to read on the plane to Bouchercon, mainly because I can't resist books about writers and not because I'm a fan of Harris' work. In fact, I picked up Pompeii to read on another plane trip and wasn't impressed. So it was a pleasant surprise to find that I enjoyed The Ghost quite a bit. Here's the set-up: a ghost writer who's done books for fading rock stars and movie stars and such is...
John Rentoul (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
It has come to something when Jon Snow, the Channel Four News presenter, asks the question that has been puzzling me : What on earth has Tony Blair done to ignite such bile? (Not that I would mix metaphors like that.) Snow was surprised by the response to his blog on Blair's chances of becoming President of the European Council. One of the reasons, I would tentatively suggest, was the attitude of news...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Robert Harris reviews Trotsky by Robert Service in the TLS: Born in another age, Trotsky might have whiled away his time harmlessly enough on a small private income, calling for a workers’ revolution while never actually doing any physical work...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
... The world according to Robert Harris.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Robert R. Harris, CPA, who served on both the board of directors and governing Council of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, today became the Institute's chairman. His term is one year.
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