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The Tournament of Books 2015: Predictions

March 7, 2015 by Drew

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… it’s the most wonderful time of the year! It’s Tournament of Books time! It’s snuck up on me a little bit this year – but maybe that’s just because, astonishingly, I finished my reading in early February this year. I went 14 for 16 this year, opting not to tackle Sarah Waters’ tome-like The Paying Guests nor Elena Ferrante’s Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay.  I figure I’ll probably catch the Ferrante […]

Categories: Features • Tags: Features, Field Notes, Field Notes Brand, Field Nuts, Predictions, So Many Damn Books, The Morning News, The Tournament of Books, The Tournament of Books 2015

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2014 – The RB Lit Review

December 31, 2014 by Drew

And so, friends, we come to the end of another year.  So many books read, so much to recap – so let’s dive in. VITAL STATS, YEAR FOUR: Books Read: 137 Pages Read: 48,900 (an exact round number – weiiiird) Average Rating: 3.89 (a definite drop from the last two years, although this may reflect a somewhat broader scope of reading? or sharper critical thinking? who knows.) Highest Rating(s): – 6 out of 5 Jeff VanderMeer’s The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance) was maybe the […]

Categories: Features • Tags: A Visit From The Goon Squad, Acceptance, Annihilation, Authority, Bad Books, Broken Monsters, China Miéville, Dani Lencioni, David Mitchell, DC Pierson, Edgar Cantero, Embassytown, Eric Setiawan, FSG Originals Series, good Books, Harper Perennial, Haruki Murakami, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Jeff Vandermeer, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, Junot Diaz, Kafka on the Shore, Karen Russell, Katherine Faw Morris, Lauren Beukes, Lena Dunham, Meg Wolitzer, Murakami 2014, Nick Harkaway, Not That Kind of Girl, Of Bees and Mist, Olive Editions, Parties, Shirley Jackson, So Many Damn Books, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, The Bone Clocks, The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never had to, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The City and the City, The Interestings, The Marriage Plot, The Morning News, The People in the Trees, The Southern Reach Trilogy, The Supernatural Enhancements, The Tournament of Books 2014, Tigerman, Vonnegut 201x, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Woolf 2015, year in review, You Should Have Known, Young God

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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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Two Challenges – and an invitation

January 12, 2012 by Drew

Hello, folks!  A proper Happy New Year to all of you – a bit belated, I admit. Anyway, for those of you who are literary prognosticators, you’ll know that yesterday was a big day: The Morning News dropped the 2012 Tournament of Books bracket.  I’m proud to say that I accurately predicted half of the bracket this year, which is personally very exciting – but even more exciting, I’m pretty sure I want to read at least 12 of this […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Challenges, charles dickens, Dickens 2012, Invitation, Read-Along, The Morning News, The Tournament of Books 2012

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A Thousand Cuts

August 3, 2010 by Drew

First off – dear Viking, you probably ought to spell check your author’s name for the title page.  Simion Lelic =/= Simon Lelic.   OOPS. Second off – this is my third recommendation from The Biblioracle over at The Morning News.  If you’re reading this blog and you haven’t used John Warner’s monthly-ish service… well, you need to get your act together.  I don’t need to tell you about Gravity’s Rainbow or Geek Love – you can read about them […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: A Thousand Cuts, Fiction, Literature, Simon Lelic, The Biblioracle, The Morning News

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Business Updates

March 9, 2010 by Drew

Hi everybody (…anybody) Just a few quick notes from the front lines – so you know I’m still alive. 2666 is a monster of a novel and I’m slogging through it right now.  I thought I’d have gotten more done in London but… well… too much to do!  After that’s done, we’ll get back on a faster track, including a few more plays and some philosophy and the fifteen or so books I now have on my shelf (thanks, Watersones!) […]

Categories: News/Updates • Tags: etc, Housekeeping, The Morning News, Tournament of Books

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