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Thomas Cobb’s long road to Shavetail

By BILL RODRIGUEZ | February 20, 2008

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Heart keeps beating
Storytelling is largely about character, and writer Thomas Cobb came up with a doozy when he conceived Bad Blake.
A long-silent civil-rights heroine comes to Maine
It's a writer's dream — to stumble across a story, a figure, or a moment in time, that influenced our history but remains relatively untouched by the hands of academia or pop culture.
His pants were so on fire
Lines upon learning that former White House press secretary Scott McClellan will be publishing a memoir in 2008
Playlist: July 13, 2007
TDS Mob, Hell Toupee, Kustomized, and more.
The odd couple
Four days after being released from prison, the Whitey Bulger’s protégé was singing like a canary to a grandmother from Newton.
Who wants to be Tony Millionaire?
Tony Millionaire’s working habits are monastic.
Memories of you
Pagan Kennedy, Somerville writer and ex-zinester, offers her own take on the urge to re-experience the past in her latest novel, Confessions of a Memory Eater . The pornography of pharmacology: Pagan Kennedy on drugs, memory, and the lure of nostalgia.
Dog licks man
Imagine my embarrassment. I’m on a crowded subway car reading Etgar Keret’s new collection of short stories. Finishing one story, I turn the page and there, in big block letters, is the next story’s title: “ACTUALLY, I’VE HAD SOME PHENOMENAL HARD-ONS LATELY.”
‘Great’ is definitely the wrong word
When I come across an obvious factual error in a book, my initial inclination is to wince in sympathy for the soon-to-be-embarrassed author. Unless, that is, the mistake is infuriatingly egregious, in which case I’m more apt to throw the book up against the wall in disgust.
A compendium of regional recipes and tasty tales
May your head dance with visions of sugarplums.
Past and present
A book as scrupulously observed and beautifully wrought as Andrew Motion’s In the Blood can provide a shock of recognition. This, you think, is what memoir was meant to be.
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