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Music to Soothe Fred Savage's Breast

  • The Field Mice-Missing the Moon
  • The Ohio Players-Crying Shame
  • Lush-500
  • Tony Randall-Boo Hoo

Books I Have Read This Year

  • Jon Bradshaw: Fast Company (*****)
  • Carl Hiassen: Sick Puppy (*****)
  • Thane Rosenbaum: Elijah Rising (***)
  • Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum: I Want My MTV (*****)
  • Joe Eszterhas: Hollywood Animal (****)
  • Howard Norman: Kiss In The Hotel Joseph Conrad (****)
  • David Buckley: The Thrill Of It All (*****)
  • Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky (*****)
  • Dick Williams: No More Mr. Nice Guy (*****)
  • Alfred Kazin: Starting Out In The Thirties (****)
  • Peter Carey: His Illegal Self (*****)
  • Charles Frazier: Cold Mountain (***)
  • T. Coraghessan Boyle: The Road To Wellville (***)
  • William Shakespeare: Coriolanus (**)
  • Christopher Brookmyre: Not The End Of The World (***)
  • Barry Hannah: Bats Out Of Hell (****)
  • Andrzej Szczypiorski: A Mass For Arras (*****)
  • (ed.) Dave Eggers: The Best American Non-Required Reading 2002 (*****)
  • Henry Bromell: Little America (****)
  • Robert Penn Warren: All The King's Men (***)
  • Russell Shorto: Descartes' Bones (****)
  • Joseph Wood Krutch: If You Don't Mind My Saying So... (***)
  • Prof. James Robertson, D.D.: The Old Testament And Its Contents (****)
  • Helen DeWitt: The Last Samurai (****)
  • David Lehman: The Last Avant-Garde (***)
  • (ed.) Dave Eggers: The Best American Non-Required Reading 2009 (***)
  • Peter Golenbock: Fenway (*****)
  • Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes: P.'s Three Women (****)
  • David Pownall: The Raining Tree War (**)
  • Melvyn Bragg: Richard Burton (****)
  • Lydia Millet: Oh Pure And Radiant Heart (****)
  • Booth Tarkington: The Magnificent Ambersons (*****)
  • Alexander Pope: Scriblerus (****)
  • Mickey Mantle: All My Octobers (*****)
  • Maureen O'Hara: 'Tis Herself (*****)
  • Jerzy Kosinski: Blind Date (*****)
  • Eric Zencey: Panama (***)
  • Eric Ambler: Passage Of Arms (****)
  • Richard Wright: Native Son (****)
  • P.G. Wodehouse: The Girl In Blue (*****)
  • Robert MacNeil: Wordstruck (****)
  • Keith Waterhouse: Billy Liar (****)
  • H.R.F. Keating: The Dog It Was That Died (****)
  • (ed.) Gideon Bosker and Lena Lenček: Escape (****)
  • Warwick Collins: The Rationalist (****)
  • James Conaway: Memphis Afternoons (***)
  • Bill Mauldin: Up Front (*****)
  • Josef Škvorecký: The Republic Of Whores (***)
  • Robert MacNeil: The Right Place At The Right Time (*****)
  • Ryszard Kapuściński: The Soccer War (****)
  • C.P. Snow: Death Under Sail (****)
  • Lee Durkee: Rides Of The Midway (****)
  • Martin Booth: The Industry Of Souls (****)
  • Michael Brownstein: Country Cousins (***)
  • (ed.) Mike Jay and Michael Neve: 1900 (*****)
  • Evgeny Popov: The Soul Of A Patriot (*****)
  • Salman Rushdie: Imaginary Homelands (*****)
  • Louis Begley: Mistler's Exit (****)
  • (ed.) Ann Charters: The Portable Sixties Reader (*****)
  • Nicholas Dawidoff: The Catcher Was A Spy (*****)
  • David P. Barash & Nanelle R. Barash: Madame Bovary's Ovaries (***)
  • (ed.) Malcolm Bradbury: The Penguin Book Of Modern British Short Stories (****)
  • Reif Larsen: The Selected Works Of T.S. Spivet (*****)
  • Ogden Nash: Ogden Nash's Zoo (*****)
  • J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (*****)
  • Granta 51: Big Men (****)
  • Henry Miller: Europe After The War (***)
  • Sybille Bedford: Quicksands (*****)
  • David Dimbleby & David Reynolds: An Ocean Apart (****)
  • (ed.) Keath Fraser: Bad Trips (****)
  • James Ellroy: Killer On The Road (*****)
  • Brian Hall: The Saskiad (***)
  • Arnold Wesker: As Much As I Dare (****)
  • The Vintage Contemporaries Reader (***)
  • John Hersey: Life Sketches (*****)
  • Isak Dinesen: Out Of Africa & Shadows On The Grass (*****)
  • Rory Stewart: The Places In Between (****)
  • James McManus: Positively Fifth Street (****)
  • Thomas Hardy: The Mayor Of Casterbridge (*****)
  • Karl Shapiro: Reports Of My Death (****)
  • Robert Bly: Iron John (**)
  • Jack Higgins: Dark Justice (*****)

The Year In Cinema

  • : Marley (*****)
  • : The Avengers (**)
  • : Bernie (*****)
  • : Headhunters (*****)
  • : Darling Companion (*)
  • : Damsels In Distress (*****)
  • : The Three Stooges (*****)
  • : Rampart (*****)
  • : The Kid With A Bike (***)
  • : Mirror Mirror (*****)
  • : Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (*****)
  • : The Hunger Games (****)
  • : Coriolanus (*****)
  • : A Separation (*****)
  • : In Darkness (****)
  • : Thin Ice (*****)
  • : The Woman In Black (*****)
  • : Haywire (*****)
  • : The Iron Lady (*****)
  • : Carnage (*****)
  • : Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (*****)
  • : War Horse (*****)
  • : The Artist (*****)
  • : A Dangerous Method (*****)

The Slaves

  • C/Tyler Flowers (CWS) C/Ramon Hernandez (COL) 1B/Gaby Sanchez (MIA) 2B/Michael Cuddyer (COL) 3B/Jose Bautista (TOR) 3B/Kyle Seager (SEA) SS/Astrubal Cabrera (CLE) CM/Adam Lind (TOR) MI/Jed Lowrie (HOU) OF/Dexter Fowler (COL) OF/Brett Gardner (NYY) OF/B.J. Upton (TAM) OF/Justin Upton (ARI) OF/Dayan Viciedo (CWS) OF/Giancarlo Stanton (MIA) DH/Yuniesky Betancourt (KC) RES/Craig Gentry (TEX) RES/Alexi Casilla (MIN) RES/Jason Bourgeois (KC) RES/Tyler Pastornicky (ATL) P/Frank Francisco (NYM) P/Matt Harrison (TEX) P/Brandon McCarthy (OAK) P/Mark Buehrle (MIA) P/Jeremy Hellickson (TAM) P/Alex Cobb (TAM) P/Anibal Sanchez (MIA) P/Jordan Walden (LAA) P/Ted Lilly (LAD) RES/ Brian Roberts (BAL) RES/Jeff Niemann (TAM) RES/Juan Cruz (PIT) RES/Kevin Correia (PIT)
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