Munjeli Cookbook

The story begins in a nursing home, narrated by a ninety-three year old retired veterinarian recalling his first experience working in a Depression era circus. [...]

Honestly, I’ve never been fond of chicken. As a child I refused to eat it after I read that birds were the modern relatives of [...]

The first experience I had with Japanese literature was when I was thirteen. I was away at summer camp on a college campus, and their [...]

I can’t say why exactly, but I do prefer William Gibson’s more recent work. Maybe it’s obvious that a writer gets better with practice, but [...]

Somehow, I had always missed reading the whole thing. I knew the plot, several of the catchphrases, but had never actually read the book. It [...]

I haven’t been reading much, and this book took me forever. A brilliant compilation of research on attachment, technology, and sexology, I skipped through it [...]

The hard part is the follow through. We hear all the time about the dangers of processed foods, and many of us have experienced first [...]

Augusten Burroghs is a talented writer with a tormented past. His memoirs have made best-seller lists; he is riding the cutting edge of literary trendiness. [...]

Here is a book that knows what the modern novel is about: a postmodernist classic. David Mitchell makes skillful use of his writer’s bag of [...]

When I say I liked it, that doesn’t necessarily mean it was a good book. It was just a good read, at the right time, [...]

While I passed Water for Elephants at the bookstore several times, I was finally hooked on the idea after viewing this short film set in [...]

Margaret Atwood is a good interview, and there’s plenty of interviews available. She’s done a whole series on religion on YouTube, and I previewed several [...]

After reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicles, I went looking for vids on Haruki Murakami. No such luck. There’s a couple of bootlegs of a [...]

William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer features a character, Molly Millions, that he developed for the story Johnny Mnemonic. It was made into a movie starring Keannu [...]

Here’s a look at the animated version of Animal Farm produced in 1954. It’s available to watch on YouTube as an eight part series originally [...]

I found this hipster-lit vid on YouTube. I will probably soften up on Augusten Burroughs as I read more of his work. At the moment, [...]

This absurd and compelling animated trailer reminds me of Mike Whiteside’s stories, which all began, ” I was sitting in this bar in Hollywood..” I [...]

Jonathan Safran Foer, the novelist best known for Everything is Illuminated has written a new book about meat. Here in the trailer he discusses his [...]