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Castro

Randy Wayne White is one of my favorite mystery writers AND if you can, get a copy of the DVD of his trip to Cuba to find Hemingway's 'lost' baseball team. The link has photos from the trip - of Bill "Spaceman" Lee and the Gigi Stars - the kids Hemingway taught to play baseball.  And Busted Flush has a limited edition of Randy's first Doc Ford novel.

Bar none

Ah, those Guinness marketing folk. Love their new countdown to St. Patrick's clock. Not as good as the Bush countdown clock but still pretty good.

Katrina book relief

The wonderful First Book people are delivering 177,000 books to Hattiesburg, MS this week. Amazing.

more great audio

Hopping around between 3 amazing Caedon audios: Mockingbird, as prev. noted, and now the Cheever stories (with one of my favorite all-time stories, Enormous Radio, read by Meryl Streep), with Welcome to the Monkey House on tap.

JFK this weekend

One of my favorite books as a kid is the basis for an NBC documentary this Sat. night: Profiles in Courage. We have a new P.S. edition published this year, as well as the audio read by JFK, Jr..

China diet

I know Bill Clinton could make a book famous by reading it, but golfer Gary Player?? Well, he has; a small press book about a Chinese dietary study. So Tiger, watcha readin'?

Groucho haiku

Found this in my search to doublecheck the rules of haiku: whyaduck.com

DC united

The National Book Festival is on the horizon. This and The Quills and the growing number of book festivals around the land can only mean good things for increased awareness about books in our daily lives and the importance of reading for all ages, yes?

art

My friend, Jenny Feder, co-owner of Three Lives Bookstore for many years, is now happily ensconced in the town over from where I grew up AND making wonderful art. Check it out.

bowling with a buzz

The best wine value in NYC? The huge $5 chardonnay at the Port Authority Bowling alley! Not kidding. The shoes suck and the place needs a paint job, but 10 pins are 10 pins and the vino it is yummy.