by Site Owner | Jul 7, 2011 | The Reader's Perspective
Look Before You Leap: The Quandaries of a Book Reviewer by Joseph Arellano It would seem, at first blush, that a book reviewer needs only to read the book in question and then to write up his or her thoughts. Sometimes it is just this simple. However, I’ve found that...
by Site Owner | Jun 29, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs, Music
By Don McCullin, Rizzoli, $24.95, 143 pages This is a charming set of Beatles photographs taken in a single day about 6 months before what was to be their dissolution. What we seem to see is a band of brothers, happy to be together. Something else is that these are...
by Site Owner | Feb 20, 2011 | The Reader's Perspective
“Good Times, Bad Times in the Industry” by Joseph Arellano The New York Times created a dust-up recently by posting an article about the current glut of memoirs. The writer seemed to think that everyone and his dog and cat were writing their book of...