Also, the November Reason has been out for a couple weeks now. My sole bylined contribution is a brief summary of a paper in the American Journal of Sociology.
When it comes to the comic stylings of Montana senators, give me Burton "Bert" Wheeler. When he wasn't fighting FDR's court-packing plans, he was doing a double act with Robert Woolsey.
TAGGED, MEMED, DELIVERED: Daniel McCarthy has filled out one of those questionnaires cum chain letters that crawl around the blogosphere, and he's asked me to do the same. This one isn't as interesting as the last few book-memes, but I'll bite:
You ask this of a parent? I read books more than once practically every night. Here's one: How to Be a Pig, by Ima Swine.
One book you would want on a desert island?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: A complete Encyclopedia Brittanica. Because it's big, and I'll need firewood.
One book that made you cry?
If a book ever made me cry, it was too long ago for me to remember it. I suppressed the ability to cry when I was 12 or 13 years old. Really: I can tear up, but I can't sob.
The World Turned Upside Down, by Robert Anton Wilson. Looks like the cliffhanger at the end of Nature's God will never be resolved.
One book you wish had never been written?
Projecting Paranoia: Conspiratorial Visions in American Film, by Ray Pratt. I haven't read it, I have no idea whether I agree with it, and I have nothing against the author. But I was going to write a book on the exact same topic, dammit, and then this thing came out.