About stuff (including me and writing)

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Monday, January 12, 2026

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John Lewis: A Life by David Greenberg My rating: 4 of 5 stars Writing a 600-page bio of John Lewis presents the challenge of maintaining ...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Commonplace: Write, Don't Speak; Being Known

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"I felt on the verge of talking to her about things I hadn't talked about before. I'd written about them. Sometimes I write to ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Book Rec: AI for Reluctant, Realist, Lifelong Learner

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In my usual (and unusual for being a one-time media studies academic) late-adoption approach, I am scrambling to understand more than a coup...
Monday, July 03, 2023

Book Reviewlette: Indulgence in Death

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Indulgence in Death by J.D. Robb My rating: 4 of 5 stars Good paperback genre read. Character arcs essentially flat (because in a series?...
Friday, March 31, 2023

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Hillbilly Women: Struggle and Survival in Southern Appalachia by Skye Moody My rating: 4 of 5 stars Skye Moody (aka Kathy Kahn) originall...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

All Boys Aren't Blue: Review

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All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson My rating: 3 of 5 stars At the end of his memoir (acknowledgements?), George M. Johnson not...

Finding Me, Viola Davis: Audiobook Review

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Finding Me by Viola Davis My rating: 5 of 5 stars Absorbing (I listened in just three sittings), intense, surprising, stark, direct, and ...
Wednesday, February 01, 2023

Impressions Review: The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐  The Sympathizer earns a careful review, but just now these are some are of my impressions.  ▷ My experience of the (Pulitzer-prize-w...