Brian Sawyer

On the heels of my recent failure with one nonfiction book with Everything in the title, I’ve now turned to another: The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary.
So far, it’s much easier to understand, even if its subject is just as dry. Based on the first hundred pages or so, [...]

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If you’ve taken a gander at my reading list during the past few months, you’ll know that I’ve been reading David Foster Wallace’s Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity for quite some time. If you’ve stopped by in the last few days, you’ll have noticed that, though this book has been removed from [...]

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Thanks to Maud for this news:
As reported several weeks ago, Salon is serializing Dave Eggers’ novel-in-progress, which apparently skewers American politics. The first two episodes are posted. I haven’t read them yet.
I haven’t read it yet either, and I’m not sure when I’ll get around to it (I’m still reeling from my deep disappointment with [...]

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First, Alison Krauss & Union Station: Live is everything you would expect from the first live album from such a fine band. Recorded in Kentucky, the birthplace of Bluegrass, the album alternates slow ballads–featuring Alison Krauss’s distinctive, beautiful voice–with rollicking, foot-stomping, quick-pickin’ bluegrass numbers. It’s a real treat, all the way through the 25-song collection. [...]

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“Don DeLillo, Stadium Vendor,” over at McSweeney’s (via Maud, Return of the Reluctant):
Hot dogs who wants hot dogs. Hot dogs cloaked in foil wrappers. Who wants. Hot dogs with mustard and relish and sauerkraut and ketchup all steamed and fissured and revealed in a languorous process of unwrapping. You want these hot dogs, America.Cold beer [...]

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