The Brothers Bloom.
I saw bits of The Brothers Bloom on the flight back from Arizona in October – and when I say “saw,” I mean that in a literal sense, as I didn’t put on headphones – and was interested enough to add it...
View ArticleThe Man Who Loved Books Too Much.
Allison Hoover Bartlett’s non-fiction book The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession (on sale for $6 on amazon) tells the story of a...
View ArticleThe Grifters.
I’ve got a draft blog post up on Braden Shipley and Aaron Judge, as well as a post with predictions for the 2013 season. Jim Thompson’s 1963 novel The Grifters is my first encounter with his work, a...
View ArticleThe Land that Never Was.
Klawchat today at 1 pm EDT. I’ll have a Top Chef recap up late tonight or early Friday morning. Poyais was a small, independent principality (later republic) on the Mosquito Coast of Central America,...
View ArticleCharlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster.
Pope Brock’s Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam tells the story of con man J.R. Brinkley, the forerunner to today’s “FoodBabe” and...
View ArticleThe Handmaiden.
A psychological and erotic thriller built around a classic con story, the South Korean film The Handmaiden made a number of critics’ top ten lists for 2016, but wasn’t even submitted by the Korean Film...
View ArticleStick to baseball, 3/10/18.
I had two posts for Insiders this week, with another one on Shohei Ohtani just posted this morning. One piece looked at potential #1 overall pick Casey Mize, a right-handed pitcher at Auburn who threw...
View ArticleStick to baseball, 6/2/18.
My third first-round projection for Monday night’s MLB Draft went up on Thursday for Insiders; I’ll do one more on Monday morning. I also held a Klawchat on Thursday, and will do another on Monday...
View ArticleFYRE.
My prospects ranking package began its rollout this morning for ESPN+ subscribers with the list of 15 guys who just missed the top 100. — By now there’s a pretty good chance you’ve seen FYRE, the...
View ArticleBillion Dollar Whale.
When I reviewed Bad Blood a few months ago, one of you recommended Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s book Billion Dollar Whale, since it’s in a similar vein – another story about a con artist who took very...
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