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Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... feel was a little lighter in that way. It wasn't quite as moody. In the Boston Globe , author Steve Almond shares his lifetime obsession with music. The National profiles legendary author Philip Roth. The Book Cover Archive blog lists the top 10 book covers of the '00s. Stereo Subversion explains how Broken Social Scene "changed the communal aspect of music." The New Yorker features...
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
STEVE ALMOND WRITES: “This Won’t Take But a Minute”Interview with Doug HolderI got this email recently from the noted author Steve Almond (My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow ,etc…) about a new project and subsequent event he is involved in. The event will be at the Harvard Bookstore in Harvard Square Dec, 2, 2009 at 7PM. Almond...
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Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Today’s screaming conservatives seem to have “quite happily abandoned the pretense of playing a constructive role in the debate over the nation,” ranting instead about paranoid delusions, writes Steve Almond in the Boston Globe . But under all that rage, there must be desires that drive conservatives, and in those things,...
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The End of Cyberspace (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Music writer and candy fanatic Steve Almond (one of my wife's college classmates, interestingly) has a nice piece in the Boston Globe about music, materiality, and memory: I start browsing the discs, and inevitably find one I haven’t heard in...
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Relevant History (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
A piece by Steve Almond lamenting the death of the LP and the sentimental culture surrounding it-- okay, it's more nuanced than that-- got me thinking about music, materiality, and memory. [To the tune of Sea Level, "That's Your Secret,"...
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Book Dads: Fathers That Read! (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... by standing up for his son and finds out that matters are even more complex than they seem, while Steve Almond (“Here’s the Bad News, Son”) struggles with his own history of paired victimhood and rage and wonders how to protect his infant son from the world that lives inside himself. Even amongst the other three sections of the book, fatherhood is a consistent theme, as in Amin Ahmad’s...
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Treating A Sick Animal: Flash and Micro Fictions. Timothy Gager. (Cervena Barva Press PO BOX 44035 W. Somerville, Mass. 02144) $15. http://www.cervenabarvapress.com The noted author Steve Almond once stated that Timothy Gager was one of his favorite local writers. I can see why. Gager shares Almond’s sense of irony, razor sharp wit, he deftly explores the ying and yang of...
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The Mark on the Wall (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The Rumpus reprints Steve Almond's appreciation of Kurt Vonnegut . It's a long, long essay, much taken up by Almond's account of Vonnegut's uncomfortable appearance at an event called the Connecticut Forum alongside writers Joyce Carol Oates and Jennifer Weiner and then Almond's own autobiography, the measure of Vonnegut's influence on a young person learning to think, to...
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Poet Mom (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... for Wall Street II. Anyhoo … The highlight of the night for me was getting a copy of Steve Almond's new book This Won't Take but a Minute, Honey . He's written several books including Candy Freak and My Life in Heavy Metal , but the new title he has self published. And get this … no ISBN. For those not familiar with ISBNs, that's the unique code given to a book. The...
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Poet Mom (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
This is a fun event. Hope to see you there! **** The Somerville News Writers Festival Nov 14, 2009 7 p.m. Also, visit the book fair 11a.m. to 4 p.m. All at the Arts at the Armory 191 Highland Ave Somerville, Massachusetts. Some of the readers include: Rick Moody Frank Bidart Sam Cornish Margot Livesey Tam Lin Neville Lise Haines Steve Almond and more..... Tickets: Only a ten spot
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Mostly Economics (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Steve Almond has a superb article on how he used economics lessons to manage his children in the playground. The one challenging thing about the playground, though, is that you have to do a lot of resource management. Because there’s always some moment when my daughter and another child decide, more or less simultaneously, that they want [...]
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The Observer-Dispatch News RSS (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... first half. Connor Passalacqua's extra-point kick then gave Whitesboro a 14-13 lead, and sophomore Steve Almond returned the second-half kickoff 77 yards for a touchdown. Kevin Flanagan led Whitesboro with 84 yards and a touchdown on 13 carries as the Warriors improved to 10-1. Whitesboro plays top-ranked defending state champion Sweet Home (11-0) from the Buffalo area at 8 p.m. Friday...
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The Daily Fuel (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Don't get too excited. It ain't gonna happen, at least any time soon. It should, though, and Steve Almond explains why . P.S. Note that there are some talk show hosts (none on the right, really) who have already enacted their own independent versio of the Fairness Doctrine. For example, Thom Hartmann, who often invites on his progressive show people from the Cato Institute, the Heritage...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... but they might say to their parents ... 'Look, it's all natural, it's right on the package!"' said Steve Almond, author of "Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America," and a self-professed fan of Necco wafers.
