Author Archives: kara

About kara

We know our letters just fine, and we know our numbers to a certain point, but books were always the realm of four-eyed poindexters with bowler hats and cravats. That’s why it pleases us so that America’s proud illiterates are finally stepping up and pushing back against the crushing tide of education that threatens to swallow us all into its gaping maw of checked facts. Champions of the Ignorantiat will not like it here.

Never be Cross or Cruel, Never Give us Castor Oil or Gruel

Posted on July 16, 2010 by kara

Why we dig Nanny novels, diaries and exposes, from From the NY Times.

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A Literal House of Horrors

Posted on July 14, 2010 by kara

The isolated retreat that Edith Wharton designed for herself in The Berkshires is straight out of The Shining.

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On the Nightstand

Posted on July 14, 2010 by kara

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group Publication Date: January 2005 Language: English Pages: 304

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Republic of Booklessness

Posted on July 12, 2010 by kara

“Free To All,” is chiseled in old, non-digitized stone over the main entrance to the Boston Public Library; and in the words of Thomas Jefferson, carved in un -photoshopped gilded letters on the mantle of the  super secret Trustees’ Room … Continue reading →

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Never Let Me Go movie trailer actually looks pretty good

Posted on July 4, 2010 by kara

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The Borders at the Top of the Hill

Posted on July 3, 2010 by kara

This hideous Borders bookstore in Chestnut Hill, PA opened in August 1994, and failing to “meet the company’s objectives,” was shut down earlier this year. The store sat at the top of the hill, where Bethlehem Pike meets Germantown avenue, … Continue reading →

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Weird.

Posted on June 26, 2010 by kara

AbeBooks’ Weird Book Room is heralded as the finest source of everything that’s bizarre, odd and downright weird in books. There is some seriously weird shit out there being published behind our backs. Check out the these awesomely titled tomes; … Continue reading →

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On the Nightstand

Posted on June 22, 2010 by kara

I needed something light – literally – to read on a business trip to Korea and the mammoth, 600 page Muriel Spark biography I am half way through didn’t fit the bill or in my carry-on so I took one … Continue reading →

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They’re Writing this Article Again.

Posted on June 13, 2010 by kara

“The Female Voice of a New Generation”. Wake me up in another ten years.

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America’s Next Top Novel – Brought to You by Eustace Tilley and James Bottomtooth

Posted on June 6, 2010 by kara

Oh the banality of it all. In today’s double issue of the venerable New Yorker, the snoots and James Bottomtooths pay homage to 20 young (under 40) whippersnappers, whom they deem to be the most talented and most important writers … Continue reading →

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