With 1998's A Man in Full, Tom Wolfe set out to do for (or possibly to) Atlanta and the south what he did for (or possibly to) New York City with his 1987 epic novel The Bonfire of the Vanities. Bonfire is, for me, the most important novel of the late 20th century, with American … Continue reading A Man In Full
Category: Miscellanea
The Master and Margarita
"Your interlocutor was at Pilate's, and had breakfast with Kant, and now he's visiting Moscow." The devil comes to Soviet Moscow. Written during Stalin's 1930's and first published in 1967, The Master and Margarita is Russian author and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov's story about the Devil and his "retinue" showing up in Moscow. What follows is … Continue reading The Master and Margarita
God and the Astronomers
"When an astronomer writes about God, his colleagues assume he is either over the hill or going bonkers." Written by agnostic astronomer Robert Jastrow and published in 1978 by Reader's Library Incorporated, God and the Astronomers is a short book detailing the origins of the Big Bang theory and its implications for scientists (many of … Continue reading God and the Astronomers
