Cup O' Books

Rochester International Jazz Festival 2008 Day 6 and Day 8

2008-06-21T17:56:46Z

The 2008 Rochester International Jazz Fest is in full swing, and this page has been taken over and re-dubbed for the week. If you are looking for other RIJF goers who seek virtual and face-to-face interactions, check these guys out: Jazz Rochester Fretful Read More......(read more)

Rochester International Jazz Festival 2008 Days 4 and 5

2008-06-18T19:27:54Z

Rochester International Jazz Festival 2008 Day 2 and Day 3

2008-06-16T20:02:24Z

Have you ever watched Télemundo as a non-Spanish speaker, or asked for directions in Hong Kong? Seeing Jacob Anderskov at the Lutheran Church last night was a bit like that, if the person giving directions was a brilliant poet. Anderskov amazed me. I Read More......(read more)

Rochester International Jazz Fest 2008 Day One

2008-06-14T15:22:19Z

Rochester International Jazz Fest 2008

2008-06-13T14:00:05Z

The 2008 Rochester International Jazz Fest is in full swing, and this page has been taken over and redubbed for the week. If you are looking for other RIJF goers who seek virtual and face-to-face interactions, check these guys out: Jazz Rochester Fretful Read More......(read more)

A Review of The Solitary Vice by Mikita Brottman

2008-06-11T18:29:57Z

It is fundamentally incorrect to contrast bourgeois culture and bourgeois art with proletarian culture and proletarian art. The latter will never exist, because the proletarian regime is temporary and transient. The historic significance and the moral Read More......(read more)

The Melted Rubber Humans - Poetry Submissions

2008-03-27T15:46:36Z

I got the following in my e-mail. Since next month is National Poetry Month, I decided to pass it along. It came from Dee Rimbaud, author of some of the books above. Let me know if anyone sends something in. The Melted Rubber Humans are looking Read More......(read more)

Poetry Madness 2008

2008-03-19T14:20:24Z

I am running Poetry Madness again this year, but I am hosting it on my classroom website. You will need to create a user account through Edublogs to participate. I’d love to have some outside opinions of the sixty-four poems to use with my students Read More......(read more)

Worth A Look

2008-02-22T18:27:42Z

Timothy Egan’s response to Steve Jobs, who said, “the fact is that people don’t read anymore.” The shortlist for the Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the year. Will Ashford’s book art. Lee Kottner’s two part post Read More......(read more)

Bomani Armah’s Read A Book

2008-02-19T16:18:49Z

“I’m hip about time.” - Captain America (Peter Fonda) in Easy Rider We are anything but timely here at Cup O’ Books. We do try though. I mean, come on dude. I gots a blog, right!? Speaking of time, racial politics is always a sticky Read More......(read more)

A Review of Soldier’s Heart by Elizabeth D. Samet

2008-02-17T11:25:42Z

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.” - Samuel P. Huntington Can one support the troops Read More......(read more)

Books by Presidential Candidates

2008-01-12T15:56:59Z

I don’t know about you, but the dribble that comes from the presidential candidates via electronic media arrives in piles and says nothing about what we can expect if they win. The solution? Read their books. So which Presidential candidate is worth Read More......(read more)

Hugh Massingberd

2007-12-31T14:34:38Z

Wit is a commodity that defies free market forces. Always in short supply, it is usually undervalued because at any moment it can turn on you. A good time to measure a man’s value is when he is staring at the business end of a biting wit. Where Read More......(read more)

A Review of Bones Rocks and Stars by Chris Turney

2007-12-01T15:40:00Z

As my 39th birthday approaches, I wrestle more and more with time. Impending death focuses the mind, right? Well, it’s not as bad as all that, really, but like an invasive species, I find myself appreciating time’s aesthetic while wanting Read More......(read more)

A Review of The Devil of Great Island by Emerson W. Baker

2007-11-18T13:03:32Z

The Devil of Great Island by Emerson W. Baker was released at the beginning of last month. I assume the book’s marketing team figured since they had a piece on witchcraft, a pre-Halloween release might boost initial sales. As the book is an excellent Read More......(read more)