Hydraulics, water pressure, that sort of thing

H20 definitely seems intent on killing us here in Dallas. Our water heater, apparently feeling a kinship with all the liquid pouring down outside, just burst this morning and flooded the kitchen.

Sorry about this, but all book/daddy operations are hereby temporarily suspended while we telegraph distress signals and man the bilge pumps.

Is that a lifeboat? Oh well then, hurrah. Women and book/daddies first.

July 3, 2007 9:52 AM | Permalink

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THE REVIEWS:

Pat Barker, Frankenstein, Cass Sunstein on the internet, Samuel Johnson, Thrillers, Denis Johnson, Alan Furst, Caryl Phillips, Richard Flanagan, George Saunders, Michael Harvey, Larry McMurtry, Harry Potter and more ...

ESSAY:

Big D between the sheets -- Dallas in fiction

ESSAY:

Reviewing the state of reviewing

ESSAY:

9/11 as a novel: Why?

ESSAY:

How can critics say the things they do? And why does anyone pay attention? It's the issue of authority.

The disappearing book pages:

Papers are cutting book coverage for little reason

Thrillers and Lists:

Noir favorites, who makes the cut and why