Book Club this Week
Philip Gourevitch will be joining us this week at TPMCafe Book Club to talk about his new book: Standard Operating Procedure. His first post should be up this morning.
Joining him will be poet and essayist Mary Karr, author Rory Stewart, Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic Monthly, E.J. Graff, senior correspondent at The American Prospect and novelist Robert Stone.
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Can't wait for Stone's appearance -- A Flag for Sunrise is one hard case.
"I'm the shark on the bottom of the lagoon. You have to sink a damn long way before you get to me. When you do, I'm waiting."
June 23, 2008 12:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rory Stewart is fantastic. "The Places In Between" is an incredible book. Haven't read "The Prince of the Marshes" yet, but I need a new book so I'll get it tomorrow... :)
youtube.com/watch?v=nm9xR8G76kI - His story that starts at 1:45 is brilliant/indellible.
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June 25, 2008 2:01 AM | Reply | Permalink