11 posts tagged “booklist”
I'm reading Kate Bornstein's excellent Hello, Cruel World right now, and I can't recommend it enough. She has a wonderful voice and it's so funny and sweet and pulls no punches.
She mentions a lot of books, books that I want to read. That aren't available in my library system. So I'm making the list, and I'll get these later, most likely...
Right now, I'm listening to Alex Kapranos (of Franz Ferdinand) on Fresh Air. I guess he's written for the Manchester Guardian about food on the road. And the collection of columns is now published as a book:
Here's a few of his columns:
- Big fat pig
- Beware the White Widow
- Whine tasting
- A distinct character
- Ribbon and blues
- It came from the east
- Home Comforts
- Food Music
- Carnivorne's Corner
- Who was better - Lennon or McCartney
- End of the Road
- Eating Habits
- Like Christmas should be
- Dumplings and pancakes at the Russia Hotel, Korea
- Sweet goodbyes
- bean there done that
- In grandmother's footsteps
- Donut Delights
- Brace Yourselves
- Curry Favour
- Unfamiliar stars
- Primal eating down under
- Pleasure and Spain
- Azeitao cheese
- Oysters on special offer? My stomach cramps in warning
- Oyster blues
- Chop and change
- A raw deal
- The gastro-adventurer
- heavenly hamburgers
- The antithesis of chain coffee shops
- talking italian
- Pasta Master
- bookshop food
- Formosa Cafe
The Power of Projections: How Maps Reflect Global Politics and History by Arthur Jay Klinghoffer
a political science professor at Rutgers’s Camden campus. From the publisher: “In this fascinating book, Klinghoffer examines the world perceptions of various civilizations and the ways in which maps have been formulated to serve the agendas of cartographers and their patrons. He analyzes the recent decline of sovereignty, the spread of globalization, the reassertion of ethnic identity, and how these trends affect contemporary mapmaking.”
I learned about this from the Map Room
Also,
The soup peddler's slow & difficult soups : recipes & reveries by David Ansel. It's about how he built a bicycle soup delivery service. With recipes. I found this in a November 2005 Bicycling that I stole from my doctor's office.
It's Seth Godin's new book. Not that I've read
Seth Godin's old book. But I'm very interested in his psychology
of sales. And how can you go wrong with that cover -- it's brilliant!
I read about it on Rael Dornfest's blog (which I'm reading in a
google cached version -- the real url isn't loading. So no linky for
you).
It appears as though he (Dornfest, not Godin) lives in Portland. I thought there might be a connection between him and platial
-- but no. I can't believe I haven't investigated platial earlier--it
seems like just the place for a geographically obsessed person like
myself. Must. go. immerse.
