Robert Birnbaum

Robert Birnbaum is editor-at-large at Identity Theory. All the sketchy details of his life will be (re)fabricated in his memoir-in-progress, “Just Talking: How to Do Things With Words.”

https://ourmaninboston.wordpress.com/

15 Jan 2010

It’s Never Too Late

Seventy-year-old career musician Andre Williams makes his literary debut.

14 Jan 2010

Poor Haiti

Wherein Our Man in Boston assembles a short list of reading on benighted Haiti.

14 Jan 2010

Special K

In world of suck-up commentators, James Howard Kunstler makes sense.

13 Jan 2010

Doing Things With Words

Three books pay particular attention to how we use words.

13 Jan 2010

Treme Arriving

NOLA’s Tom Piazza talks about writing for “The Wire’s” David Simon on the small screen.

12 Jan 2010

Sleepless in Los Angeles

A new epidemic from Charles Huston.

11 Jan 2010

Acolytes of Gutenberg

Seven publishers on what they wish they’d published.

11 Jan 2010

Founding Fathers, Sisters, and Cousins

Crediting new faces with birthing the U.S.A.

08 Jan 2010

A Boston Whodunnit

Thrilling history and crime in Beantown.

07 Jan 2010

Fair Fowl

Photographer Andrew Zuckerman succeeds in capturing the splendor of our winged friends.