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One-Man Book Club Backlog! Independence Day Clearance Sale Going On All Week!

June 28, 2010 by Hank Stuever 4 Comments

The members of the One-Man Book Club have been reading ’em faster than all the members (total: one) can get on here to blogscuss ’em. I’m going to try to clear out all the One-Man Book Club recent selections this week, and include some selections where the membership couldn’t finish the book. Ready? Chug!

n338168To start, here’s a book I liked very much and recommend to others: Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction, by Jake Silverstein, which came out in the spring. I dug it deeply, starting with the title and alluring jacket. But another journalist I know (someone who is really keen about innovation in nonfiction), said he dropped out after page 40 or thereabouts. So there’s that.

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VIP

November 23, 2009 by Hank Stuever 1 Comment

Forgot to mention a very special guest who showed up at my Book People reading in Austin: Carl Anderson, PhD, a UT prof. If you live in Dallas, however, you know him as somebody else, starting about this time every year at NorthPark Mall.

Carl was in a purple tie-dye T-shirt on Saturday, but I’d recognize him anywhere. Here’s a picture of us at NorthPark back in 2006. He bought a copy of my book and said he was very interested in reading it. I hope he likes it, or I’m going to have a little too much coal.

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Sentimental journeys

November 23, 2009 by Hank Stuever 3 Comments

austin_skyline

If you’ve been reading this blog or if you know me even just a little, then you know that when it comes to memory and the past and driving around I can be a total sap. Fair warning, then. Move on or get in the passenger seat…

I lived in Austin for just a bit longer than three years — from 1996 to 1999, which was sort of like the roaring ’20s in that town, the decade everyone and everything became unbearably hip and people got rich just by being in the right action-figure-adorned cubicle farm internet start-up company at the exact right time. Being here this weekend really made it seem like forever ago.

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