The New One – 3/5 Stars This is the second Mike Birbiglia book I’ve read, after Sleepwalk with Me, and it’s good in the ways that comedians’ books are good and bad in the way that comedians’ books are bad (though this is a general issue with the form more than this specific book). Mike Birbiglia’s career is interesting in part because of the way he clearly got taken up by “Big Storytelling” around 2009 or so, and the opportunities to write movies that came […]
In June of 2016 my wife, Jen, and I took our fourteen-month-old daughter, Oona, to the Nantucket Film Festival.
The New One by Mike Birbiglia
My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers
Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter
Hey Rube by Hunter S Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
Nickle Brickle'Bee by Sterling Nixon
Cold Storage by David Koepp
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Mark of Zorro by Johnson McCulley
The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark