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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

The Three O'Clock's "The Hidden World Revealed": Music Review

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The Three O'Clock started in the South Bay, with humble studios, small labels, and eager punks in the late 1970s. Some Southern Califo...
Sunday, December 1, 2013

Mazzy Star's "Seasons of Your Day": Music Review

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Hope Sandoval's narcoleptic air, her drowsy voice and waifish demeanor, infused three albums by this loose lineup, under the directio...
Saturday, November 30, 2013

Go Fraincis Ceanada

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Ag taistil ar thuas, thíomaint Léna agus mise go Stáit Nua-Eabhrac go dtí i mbaile d'aois i Montréal. Ar dtús, tháinig muid go dtí an ...
Friday, November 29, 2013

Patrick deWitt's "Ablutions": Book Review

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I recognize the "anonymous smaller roads of the working class" taken by the narrator as he weaves his "magical Ford" j...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Patrick deWitt's "The Sisters Brothers": Book Review

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His experimental debut "Ablutions" demonstrated deWitt's invention of a compelling narrative voice; this second novel revea...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Desmond Berry's "The Chivalry of Crime": Book Review

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This epic wraps the core of Jesse James' saga within a teenager's obsession to buy a pistol like the one that pitiless bankrobber ...
Friday, November 22, 2013

William Azuski's "Travels in Elysium": Book Review

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This philosophical thriller mixes a novel of ideas with a mystery plot on the Greek island of Santorini. The site of an immense volcanic c...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

John MacGregor's "Propinquity": Book Review

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This takes place in Australia starting around forty years ago. Clive Lean relates nearly all of the story firsthand, yet his school chum J...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Robert Ferrigno's "The Girl Who Cried Wolf": Kindle Book Review

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Skilled thrillers with a moral undertone, Robert Ferrigno's "Assassin Trilogy" entertained me and kept me intrigued by an alt...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Ian McEwan's "Solar": Book Review

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I didn't expect to enjoy this much. My impression of Ian McEwan's been grim. I found remaindered his teen incest romp "The Ce...
Friday, November 15, 2013

Ag taistil go dtí Stáit Nua Eabhrac

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Chuaigh muid go dtí Colaiste na Bhaird a cur cuairt ár mhac níos óige le linn an dhá tseachtaine seo caite. Bíonn Niall i gcónaí ina Stá...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

"Norton Book of Science Fiction": Review

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Having taught at a technical college from this assigned anthology a course in SF, I found a wide range of reactions. When I used it in the...
Monday, November 11, 2013

John Leonard's "Lonesome Rangers": Book Review

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I read this for two reasons. I wanted to find out Leonard's take on Jáchym Topol's novel "City Sister Silver" in light o...
Saturday, November 9, 2013

Earle Labor's "Jack London: An American Life": Book Review

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The subtitle has been applied by many previous chroniclers of other people's lives, but in Jack London's case, it fits well. Earle...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

Alain Badiou's "Cinema": Book Review

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Thirty-one essays and reviews comprise this collection, translated well by Susan Spitzer to convey this French political philosopher's...
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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
Los Angeles, California, United States
Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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