Showing posts with label Sam Quinones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sam Quinones. Show all posts
Monday, June 20, 2016

Top 21 Surfing Faves: Marginal Revolution, Scott Adams, Holding the Light, Root Simple, Apifera Farm, Book Man's Log, Kevin Kelly, and More

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Yes, it is true that most blogs, never better than mediocre, end up abandoned as their authors migrate over to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,...
Monday, October 12, 2015

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones

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Just posted in Literal Magazine Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic By Sam Quinones Reviewed by C.M. Mayo ...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Cyberflanerie: Writers and Writing: Sam Quinones on the Mennonite Mob, the Daily Skimm, Write On!

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Debra Eckerling's Write On! August newsletter is out. (Thanks, amiga, for the mention of my "30 Deadly-Effectve Ways to Free Up B...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Cyberflanerie: Mexico City, Patzcuaro, Tijuana & Tulum Edition

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You're Eating Fake Tacos and Diana Kennedy is Pissed About It   by Daniel Hernandez P.S. Diana Kennedy is a true treasure: teacher, car...
Monday, May 19, 2014

Cyberflanerie: Better Books, Books of Note, Decluttering Books, Rare Books

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The NYT's Charles M. Blow says, Reading Books is Fundamental. Making Better Books: The Book Designer's archive of articles ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Cyberflanerie: The Voynich Manuscript, Books, Used Books, Rare Books, and the Future of Bookstores Edition

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Totally huge news: The mysterious circa 15th or 16th century Voynich manusucript might be of Mexican origin: Arthur O. Tucker and Rexford ...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Cyberflanerie: Nuts Edition

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James McWilliams talks about The Pecan: A History of America's Native Nut (University Texas Austin) with podcaster extraordinaire Chris ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Cyberflanerie: Michael Ventura, Macaulay Library's Coyote Calls, John Wells' Field Lab blog, Sam Quinones on the Dinastia de El Hamlet

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3D printer du jour The Revolution Will Be Printed , according to Austin Chronicle columnist Michael Ventura, by which he means 3D print...
Friday, November 02, 2012

Sam Quinones Podcasting on Oystein Baadsvik and the Tuba

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Delighted to find Sam Quinones, one of my favorite writers, podcasting . >>Check out his latest report on Oystein Baadvik and the ...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Links Noted: Yayoi Kusama, Kevin Kelly, Thumb Thing, Sam Quinones, Ken Ackerman, Joy of Books, Ken Gordon

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The World According to Yayoi Kusama (The Financial Times) A very unusual elderly artist whose polkadotted pumpkins fetch the price of a ski ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Blogs Noted: Reading War and Peace, Sam Quinones, Sophy Burnham, Sandell Morse, and More

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Supercut.org Check out the "supercut" video riffing through Nicholas Cage's wiggy and not so wiggy hairstyles. Read what Kevin...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Guest-blogger Mare Cromwell on 5 Telephone Numbers that Have Emblazoned Themselves Across Our Cultural Consciousness

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I met Mare Cromwell , one of the most interesting writers I know, at the Maryland Writers Association's annual conference.* A master ga...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Guest-blogger Sam Quinones on 5 Books of True Tales

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It's a very special honor to host Sam Quinones this Wednesday because he is one of the writers I most admire. Some years ago, I gave hi...
Monday, June 06, 2011

Monday Miscellanea

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The Astral Plane by C.W. Leadbeater And so many more once very rare and now free ebooks at Project Gutenberg Book xylophone A charmingly en...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Sam Quinones's Series on Mexican Heroin

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How did I miss this? If you did, too, check it out here . P.S. Read my review of his earlier book, True Tales from Another Mexico , here .
Friday, November 23, 2007

Madam Mayo's Top 10 Books Read in 2007

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1. Patricia Klindienst, The Earth Knows My Name Strange, moving, beautiful. 2. Sam Quinones, Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream If yo...
Thursday, August 30, 2007

Tell Your True Tale to Sam Quinones

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There are so few truly good books about Mexico in English. By good, I mean not only beautifully written and deeply researched, but both comp...
Thursday, July 19, 2007

Summer Travel Reading: Top 10 Faves

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I'm still on vacation... so for now, here's my recent guest-blog post over at The Happy Booker --- with an intro by Wendi Kaufman (...
Monday, May 14, 2007

The Happy Booker Goes South of the Border with Narco Corridos & Mas

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Today on the Happy Booker , author Sam Quinones has put together a list of the top Mexican immigrant corridos by Los Tigres del Norte, the ...