Millhauser is awesome. He's probably among the best short-story writers working today. (And he seems totally disinterested in writing another novel, though "Edwin Mullhouse" is fantastic; "From the Realm of Morpheous" like a bunch of interrelated short stories; and "Martin Dressler" has a wonderful closing chapter.)…

SPOILERS maybe?

Was "Middlesex" a miniseries or a full-blown TV show? If it was the latter, I could see it not getting picked up, considering that was announced, when? In 2009?

It's an O.K. book. Particularly when the kid is trying to like steal the fish and the thing is slithering down his leg (wow, that came off a lot more suggestive than I intended) as he was talking to that girl.

Waldman acknowledges it.

At Least
At least it's not Facebook comments. Like what the LA Times did.

Both Karen Russell's "Swamplandia!" and Tea Obrecht's "The Tiger's Wife" were great reads.

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I saw this and it looks awesome.

Love This Record
Just a spectacular collection of music. One of the best albums, if not the best, of the 00s.

Disagree because "Prisoner" is head-and-shoulders better than the others.

There's this wonderful place called the library. Plenty of discs and free too!

I'm really hoping that this is just a product of a terrible marketing company.

I am an ardent defender of the forest-wandering scenes, because they go against the trope of most fantasies. The characters have no clear destination, only a vague idea of what they're searching for, and all around them people are dying and the world is going to shit but they can't really do anything about it because…

O.K., I like the Williams tribute, but that kid is lip syncing the whole thing. While a parody, here, you need to at least give the girl props for singing the parts herself.

For science of music stuff, both "This is Your Brain…" and "Musiciphilia" are pretty good.

Wasn't So Much the Prose
It wasn't so much the generic prose that got me. All right, so it lacked a distinct voice and was yet another story in a long standing line of stories that use the first person because it's easier for the author than to offer any real perception to the narrative, but it was competent.

I'd like to direct your attention to "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves."

I think "Orange County" is underrated, too.

"A.I."'s ending is outstanding, deceptively sentimental, but really completely tragic.

Most of It's Free
Apart from the ebooks. Rowling said that she's just putting the rest of the stuff out there.