What books have been sitting by the Scrogues’ bedside these days? “My patterns are diverse to the point of randomness,” says Lex. Mike Sheehan echoes that sentiment: “There is no rhyme or reason to my reading patterns. I may buy a hot new book and let it sit for months or years before I crack […]
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What are your favorite Scrogues reading?
It’s time to take a look at the books our Scrogues have stacked on their nightstands. Get ready to thumb through books on monopoly capitalism, a history of thought and invention, the adventures of a boy and his stuffed tiger, biographies of the number zero and of Josef Stalin (plus a metaphor of Stalin-as-farm-animal), a […]
Nightstand: What some of your favorite Scholars & Rogues are reading
Is a brain in a synthetic body still human? Is there such a thing as too much horticultural knowledge? Is there such a thing as too much Jane Austen? Is there a link between the JFK assassination and 9/11? Anyone have any good reading suggestions for someone going through a midlife crisis? For answers to […]
Nightstand: What Scholars & Rogues are reading
Sam Smith: The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. A wonderful analysis on the difficulty of knowing and the impossibility of predicting. Brian Angliss: The End of Faith by Sam Harris I’m not done with this book, but it’s been an interesting read thus far. Harris chronicles a long list of atrocities committed in the name of faith, […]
Assigning blame where it's due: The authors responsible for how Scrogues write (part 5)
Writers who shaped the consciousnesses, and influenced the styles, of Scholars and Rogues. Wendy Redal Hermann Hesse, especially for Narcissus & Goldmund: His study of the tension between reason and emotion as told through the 14th century lives of these two protagonists has served as a backdrop for my enduring awareness of this often troubling […]
Assigning blame where it's due: The authors responsible for how Scrogues write (part 4)
Writers who shaped the consciousnesses, and influenced the styles, of Scholars and Rogues. Denny Wilkins I wrote and edited news and commentary for a living for 20 years. I, as they say, “pumped out lots of copy” in two decades. That necessarily had as much of an impact on my progress and perspective as a […]
Assigning blame where it's due: The authors responsible for how Scrogues write (Part 3)
Writers who shaped the consciousnesses, and influenced the styles, of Scholars and Rogues. J.S. O’Brien The most influential writer and book of my life didn’t influence my writing style one bit (thank God!), but he and his book changed completely changed my life. Most deeply rural, Southern kids back in the day were exposed to […]
Assigning blame where it's due: The authors responsible for how Scrogues write (part 2)
Writers who shaped the consciousnesses, and influenced the styles, of Scholars and Rogues. Lex As a reader of mostly non-fiction, with its division by subject rather than author, this is kind of a tough one for me. It forces me pretty far back, and hence sounds cliched to me…but here goes. Conrad and Dostoevsky for […]
Assigning blame where it's due: The authors responsible for how Scrogues write (part 1)
Writers who shaped the consciousnesses, and influenced the styles, of Scholars and Rogues. Jim Booth F. Scott Fitzgerald for his prose style – Ernest Hemingway for his prose style — Thomas Wolfe for his prose style Jane Austen for her prose style — Doris Lessing for her prose style — Shirley Barker for her prose […]
Nightstand: What Scholars & Rogues is reading
Mike Sheehan: I’m reading Marty Beckerman’s Dumbocracy (Disinformation, 2008). Beckerman, who proudly boasts that Hunter Thompson called him a “morbid little bastard,” is an engaging, sharp, equal-opportunity ballbuster who revels in taking to task extremists of the “loony left” and ”rabid right” infecting American sociopolitics. Armed with factoids, anecdotes and amusing personal experiences (such as his brief encounter […]
Scholars & Rogues Nightstand: what Scrogues are reading
If you are what you read, it is indeed evident that our cast of characters is composed of both scholars and rogues. . . Chris Mackowski: All the World’s a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare by John Reed (Plume, 2008). Take all the best plot ingredients from Shakespeare’s greatest plays, cut and paste […]
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