Digested Reviews & Other News

Digested Reviews

• Slate loves The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
• Slate then takes a big poop on Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier.
• Malcolm Gladwell loves The Blind Side.

Other news:
If you’re in Jersey City tonight – hey, it could happen – check out the art opening for the Hurricane Katrina photo book Signs of Life. The book features photographs of the hand made signs that began popping up around New Orleans in the days after the storm. Some humorous, some filled with despair – primitive blogs that signalled the return of life to the City.

Home Land’s Sam Lipsyte writes from the road, while waiting for something really bad to happen, with French author and fire brand Michel Houellebecq in The Believer.