My buddy Seth from over on Pajiba got me this book for Christmas, and I have no idea why he’d think I’d be interested in a non-fiction account of a hermit who lived in the woods of Maine for 27 years, other than the fact that I live in Maine. Turns out, however, it’s a pretty fascinating book, and though I do live physically in Maine, I don’t follow the local scene that much, so somehow I managed to know absolutely nothing about Christopher Knight […]
‘Fire and Fury’ Is a Steve Bannon Tell-All Written by Michael Wolff
Over the weekend, I read Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, and if you haven’t read it yet, I would suggest it’s not really worth the time investment if you’ve been keeping up with politics since Donald Trump was elected (that is most of you, I imagine). It essentially recounts Donald Trump’s first year in office, and there’s not a lot in the book we didn’t already know. It’s basically everything that the NYTimes, The Washington Post, Politico, and Axios reported […]
Duped Again by a Playful Book Jacket
I have no idea how I ended up reading this book — I think it might have been recommended to me on GoodReads — but I didn’t know anything about it at the outset, except the title and the book jacket cover, which for some reason gave me the impression that it would be a quirky little murder mystery set in a bookstore. Like Black Books, with murrrrrder. That is not what this is. It is a murder mystery, but there is nothing quirky about […]
Before He Was a Showrunner, He Was a Novelist
I love Noah Hawley, the showrunner, who has created two great seasons of Fargo and one decent season; a bizarre but fascinating season of Legion; and an under-appreciated season of The Unusuals. With his television work, however, Hawley has always worked in the confines of another property, whether it’s the framework of Fargo, the characters of Legion, or the constricts of a network police procedural in The Unusuals. I was deeply curious as to who Hawley is in his natural state: What kind of yarn […]