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A Night with The Morning News and The Tournament of Books

March 25, 2014 by Drew

 (TMN co-founders Rosecrans Baldwin & Andrew Womack introducing the evening) Well, I think I’m sufficiently recovered enough now.  But, boy, that sriracha shot… The Tournament of Books, as readers of this blog will know, happens every March over at The Morning News.  We’re deep in it right now, with the championship coming up on Friday 3/28.  But last night (Monday, 3/24) a whole load of people took time off from commenting fiercely via the internet to come celebrate the Tournament’s […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Andrew Womack, Choire Sicha, Drew Broussard, Elliott Holt, Events, Features, Field Notes, Housing Works, Housing Works Bookstore, I Want to Show You More, Jamie Quatro, John McElwee, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Marisha Pessl, My Struggle, Night Film, Roger Hodge, Rosecrans Baldwin, Sriracha, The Morning News, The Rooster, The Tournament of Books, The Tournament of Books 2014, ToB X, Tumblr

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2013 – The RB Lit Review

December 31, 2013 by Drew

Well hello, dear readers. Amazingly, we’ve come to the end of another year – our fourth, here at Raging Biblioholism.  Can you believe it?  2014 is upon us – who’d’ve ever imagined it?  But, before the year turns over and starts anew, it’s time to take a quick look back on the year that’s passed.  We successfully expanded the content of the blog into editorials and features and recaps – all of which will continue to expand in our fifth […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: 2013, 2014, Bad Writing, Book Reviews, Books, Chris F. Holm, Christmas, Douglas Rushkoff, Eric Smith, Favorites, Features, Fiction, FSG Originals, Good Writing, Harper, Joe Hill, Kevin Barry, Literature, Marisha Pessl, New Year's, Non-Fiction, Not Favorites, Quirk Books, Reviews, TNBBC, year in review

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Special Topics in Calamity Physics

September 28, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: Blue van Meer, after years of moving all around the country with her itinerant professor father, settles in Stockton, NC for her senior year at the St. Gallway School.  There, she finds herself under the attention of a magnetic young teacher, Hannah Schneider, and the students who follow her – the Bluebloods.  But what begins as a coming of age tale takes turns both sharp and unexpected – leading Blue deep into a mystery that will force […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Fiction, Literature, Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

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Book Launch: Night Film

August 21, 2013 by Drew

The scene at powerHouse Arena You know what would be an excellent place to screen one of Cordova’s “black tapes”?  The powerHouse Arena.  Put the audience in with their backs to the windows, maybe, and project it up on that big white wall?  Or drop a screen and let everyone sit as they were last night. Regardless, it’s a decidedly excellent place for a book launch – and so it was yesterday evening for the launch of Marisha Pessl’s gobsmackingly […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Adam Green, Book Launch, Brooklyn, DUMBO, Events, Fiction, Marisha Pessl, Night Film, Powerhouse, Powerhouse Arena, Powerhouse Books, The New Yorker, Vogue

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Night Film

June 14, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: After a misguided attempt to take on reclusive filmmaker Stanislas Cordova, Scott McGrath’s journalism career is verging on washed-up.  But when Cordova’s daughter turns up dead several years later (an apparent suicide), McGrath gets pulled back into the strange and unsettling world of Cordova and his films – sending him on a journey that will shake the foundations of everything he believes in. Rating: 6 out of 5.  It is so rare anymore that a reader can walk […]

Categories: Horror, Literature, Mystery • Tags: 6, Advance Review, BEA13, Fiction, Film, Gothic, Horror, Literature, Marisha Pessl, Mystery, Night Film, Suspense

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