Friday, January 9, 2009

Relocating in 3 . . . 2 . . .

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. . . and that's it for Literary Conceits at this web address! I've moved the blog over to homebase at www.brianjayjones.com, where...
Thursday, January 8, 2009

Thanks For The Kind Words....

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During the final week of 2008, Friend o' the Blog and Feared Book Reviewer Josephine Damian spent several days over on her blog discuss...
Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Pardon the Mess....

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Several readers have e-mailed me to point out that comments on the blog have recently been disabled, and are wondering what's up. Squas...

A Moment of (Stunned) Silence at Arcade

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Last night, I was alerted by Casey, my editor at Arcade, that Richard Seaver -- founder and president of Arcade Publishing -- passed away u...
Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Ringing In The New

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Happy New Year! And it's good to be back after . . . yeeks, was it really nearly a week? Well, I missed you , at any rate. Nothing ter...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Lennon and Laptops

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Coming, perhaps appropriately, on the heels of yesterday's review of John Lennon: The Life , a number of readers have e-mailed to ask my...
Monday, December 29, 2008

Reviews in Brief: John Lennon: The Life (Philip Norman)

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"In September 2003, I suggested to John's widow, Yoko Ono, that I should become his biographer," writes Philip Norman in the A...
Thursday, December 25, 2008

Christmas Dinner

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Happy Holidays! As promised, here are some highlights from Washington Irving's 1820 short story "Christmas Dinner." Enjoy. Th...
Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Christmas Eve

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For your holiday reading, here's an excerpt from Washington Irving's 1820 short story " Christmas Eve ," lifted from the p...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Father Christmas and Secret Origins

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When I give talks about Washington Irving, inevitably, one of the first questions I get is, "Why did you choose Irving as your subject?...