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November 26, 2005
beautiful dawn...lights up the shore for me
The weather has changed for winter. Rain is falling in waves. I wonder if the river is going to overflow...
I've started work on a new project for the Internet. I'm tired of the same old blog all over the web, a scourge. The real-life-confessional one or the politics-are-my-playground one or the I-deserve-the-film-review-column-in-my-hometown-newspaper one. Keep yours eyes peeled here for it.
Until then, read some non-fiction. I'm on a non-fiction kick. Although I'm reading a novel now, so I guess I don't know what I'm talking about. But read some non-fiction. A biography, maybe.
I say this because it seems like there is a lot of new non-fiction, in general. Over the past few years, it has become the thing to write--culminating in behemoths like 1776 and that Abraham Lincoln one. So I say read it, it's probably at a pinnacle in quality. Just wade your way through all the mediocre to find it.
Three Nights in August is one I recommend. But you have to like baseball. I've mentioned Assassination Vacation here before. And a new one by Alex Kerr about Japan, Dogs and Demons, is getting both love and hate, which can only be a good thing.
Found any good non-fiction hidden out there lately?
Posted by ashersky at November 26, 2005 05:51 PM
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It's not "new" in the sense that it was released within the past year, but in this case, I think that's a good thing. Positively Fifth Street is the best work of nonfiction that I've ever read. It's about poker, but it predates the poker craze by at least a year, which I think gives it more cred.
Posted by: Eddie D. at November 26, 2005 08:55 PM