Archive for February, 2009

Time Bandit, by Andy & Johnathan Hillstrand

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Time Bandit: Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World’s Deadliest Jobs
by Andy & Johnathan Hillstrand (w/ Malcolm Macpherson)
The Hillstrand brothers assure me that crabbing in the Bering Sea is one of the, if not the, deadliest job on the planet. The morality rate is astronomical — men die of hypothermia, men are [...]

Christine Falls, by Benjamin Black

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Christine Falls
by Benjamin Black (John Banville)

Joyce lives. In the several generations since Irish literary giant James Joyce died, his influence has rippled wave-like through his homeland, even lapping gently on to Scottish and English shores from time to time.
Man Booker prize-winner John Banville got his shoes wet, so to speak — he has my vote [...]

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