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About God Street Wine and "The Method"
Usually, I use this space to write longwinded commentaries on the books I read (actually I’ve been slacking on that, lately, but hope to catch up soon).
But today I wanted to write about something a little different: a collaborative songwr...
The Technological Society, Jacques Ellul (1954)
The Technological Society, Jacques Ellul (1954; English translation by John Wilkinson, 1964). The height of the Cold War: let’s date it from 1957 - when the Sputnik satellite launched, persuading millions that the West was falling behind th...
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver (2022)
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver (2022). In the wake of reading some big, profound, gnarly books, complex works that I wrestled with and struggled to make sense of - like Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian, or Jacques Ellul’s sociol...
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (2001)
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (2001). So many things about this novel, which Franzen published in 2001, seem of its particular time period. In the course of its 566 pages it exaggerates, caricatures, and parodies such late 90s developme...
Operation Shylock, Philip Roth (1993)
Operation Shylock: A Confession, Philip Roth (1993). This was my third Philip Roth read of 2025, and it was completely different from the other two (The Plot Against America and American Pastoral). Operation Shylock is an insane, ludicrous,...
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Lo Faber (aka Doctor Lo). Singer, guitarist, songwriter for God Street Wine and elsewhere. Author of "Building the Land of Dreams: The American Transformation of New Orleans." Dad. Chess player. Book reader. Let's Go Mets.
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