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Review – Musashi
Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa. Kodansha International, 1995. Swordplay, true love, and a man climbing up the side of a cliff. It's not the Princess Bride; it's the story of Musashi, the most famous...
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Coders at Work (Review)
Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming, by Peter Seibel. ISBN 978-1-4302-1948-4. Peter Seibel interviews 15 programmers on a variety of topics. I liked the interviewing style: he asks...
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Electronic and Experimental Music, by Thom Holmes (Review)
Electronic and Experimental Music (5/e), by Thom Holmes. Routledge, 2015. ISBN 113879273X. Holmes gives a full tour of electrical and electronic instruments, from the Teleharmonium and Theremin, tape...
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Review: Fire in the Valley, by Swaine and Freiberger
Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer (3/e), by Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger. 2014. ISBN 1937785769. What was involved in the creation of the personal computer? It was...
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Review: Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone?: The Carter Family
Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone?: The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music, by Mark Zwonitzer with Charles Hirshberg. Simon & Schuster, 2014. The Carter Family was one of the biggest...
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Review: Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times (Ralph Stanley)
Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times, by Ralph Stanley and Eddie Dean. Avery, 2009. Ralph Stanley was part of the Stanley Brothers until his brother Carter died in the 1960s; then he performed...
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Review: It Can’t Happen Here
It Can’t Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis, 1935. ISBN 0451465644. This story tells how fascism could come to America. Lewis wrote it in 1935 – before Hitler attacked Poland in 1939. It shows that it was...
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Review – Washington: The Indispensable Man
Washington: The Indispensable Man, by James Thomas Flexner. My wife is on a quest to read biographies of each president. I don’t feel the same urge, but I did read one: George Washington.This...
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Review: Japanese Inn
Japanese Inn. By Oliver Statler. This book tells the story of Minaguchi-ya, a (real) inn on the road between Kyoto and Tokyo, the old capital and the new. It ranges from 1569 to the 1950s. Each...
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Review – Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson. 2020. The premise of this book is that America has a literal caste system, in the same sense as India or Nazi Germany have had. The system...
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