That time again. Though I really don’t like year-end lists, the notion of reading by the clock, here you go. What did Patti Smith say about the clock? And as Mel Brooks said, “work work work work…” Make that “read read read read….” And “write write write write…” And my top two novels of the year are: […]
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Best Reads of 2014…
Wednesday, December 31st, 2014Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey…
Friday, November 7th, 2014(This review was originally published in the Washington Independent Review of Books, November 2014.) At some point in the late 1970s, smart-alecky teenager Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, flips on some New York radio station. Bruce Springsteen comes blaring out and all that passion, fire and teenage angst reaches out and touches this kid somewhere in the swamps […]
20th Century Man…
Saturday, August 2nd, 2014(This post was published on the hugely influential health care technology news site, HIStalk, on July 30, 2014.) “I work in healthcare during the day, then I go home to the 21st century.” Dave Levin, MD, Founder/CEO of Tres Rios Group, (@DaveLevinMD) uttered these stinging words at last week’s OnBase + Epic User Forum […]
Best reads of 2013…
Wednesday, January 1st, 2014FictionBest of the bunch, in rough chronological order: Umbrella, by Will SelfThoroughly Modern Self… Tenth of December, by George SaundersA master’s class in short fiction. A Delicate Truth, by John LeCarreHis umpteenth novel…so good. TransAtlantic, by Colum McCannSuch lovely writing. Time travel, deep links of ordinary lives. Joyland, by Stephen KingPretty good beach read. Not […]
From a hotel conference room in Palo Alto, 1973…
Tuesday, December 31st, 2013Just goes to show you – the early ’70s were hugely important times, building the technology foundation we can’t live without. In today’s New York Times, an interview with two giants of the Internet – Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn. Vint Cerf – “Everything has expanded by a factor of a million since we turned […]
