Archive for the 'Booknoise Author' Category
Dohuk Diary
Posted in Blogroll, Booknoise Author, High Tea in Mosul, In the News, Lynne O'Donnell on September 6th, 2007Pauline, one of the two English ladies whose lives in Iraq are the subject of Lynne O’Donnell’s High Tea in Mosul, sends Lynne emails every few days describing what life is like in Dohuk, where she is living these days. They are fascinating for their descriptions of daily lives, which are punctuated sometimes by the violence of war, and always in its shadow.
The city of brotherly losers | Bruce Buschel
Posted in Booknoise Author, Bruce Buschel, Walking Broad on September 6th, 2007Walking Broad author Bruce Buschel wonders why his hometown has the first professional sports team to lose 10,000 times.
Jon Stewart’s Take on the Presidential Faux Pas – Wonkette
Posted in Booknoise Author, Booknoise Books, In the News, One Party Country, Peter Wallsten on June 16th, 2006Jon Stewart’s Take on the Presidential Faux Pas – Wonkette
The latest Booknoise author, Peter Wallsten (with Tom Hamburger), has a new book, One Party Country, coming out next month, but this week got some surprising extra media coverage (and an apologetic phone call to his cell) when the president decided to rib him during a press conference.
Michael Grunwald On Hurricane Katrina
Posted in About Booknoise News, Booknoise Author, In the News, The Swamp on March 28th, 2006Katrina: The Big One Or Just a Warning Shot?
Our American history of flood control and public works is fraught with problems, which the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina made clear. Michael Grunwald’s book The Swamp, about the Everglades, tells the story about how this massive marshland was drained, and how a couple of hurricanes can be blamed for a good part of the draining. This Washington Post Outlook story explores the parallels between two big Florida storms of the 20s, and the situation in New Orleans today post Katrina.