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/

11 Aug 2009

It’s Gastronomical

Since Julia Child is on everyone’s lips, let’s talk about food on the tube.

10 Aug 2009

Under-Appreciated Novels

Giving ink to books that deserved better.

10 Aug 2009

The Oracular Vidal

A welcome, recent conversation with Gore Vidal.

03 Aug 2009

Rekindled

What Amazon’s e-reader portends, according to Nicholson Baker and Jacob Weisberg.

28 Jul 2009

Attention Must Be Paid

A new Arthur Miller biography goes beyond the Marilyn stuff. But thankfully includes the Marilyn stuff.

27 Jul 2009

Grandmaster Burke

James Lee Burke’s latest sets a former POW in a murderous Southwest nexus.

27 Jul 2009

Fiasco Unfixed

An update to a recent post about books on Cuba.

22 Jul 2009

Gil Adamson

Our man in Boston chats with author Gil Adamson about Toronto’s literary mafia, the fact-checking that plagues novelists, and the difficulty of listing 10 Canadian writers.

21 Jul 2009

Back in the Day

A trio of history books deliver what most textbooks lack: good, succinct storytelling.

20 Jul 2009

Reading v. Kindling

Amazon may have confiscated your Orwell, but there is still hope.