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Bedside Manner

New, Not Improved

Guys. Guys. I have an honest-to-god bed now. Which means there's actually a bedside to speak of. Which explains why I'm here again. Read More | Comment »

8:36AM Mon. May. 14, Monica Riese

Bedside Manner: In Memoriam

My bedside table is like a mortuary where books go to be paid their last respects before they are invariably given up to the bookshelf; once safely interred, they will be gazed at fondly, with regret for the lack of appreciation given them during their brief tenure on said table, and with vague – and generally unfounded – hopes for their resurrection. Read More | Comment »

10:54AM Mon. Apr. 30, Lindsey Flatt

Bedside Manner

When I was 17, a childhood friend and I enjoyed a warm little phase where we endeavored to “out-lexicon” each other. We’d coolly slip esoteric words into casual conversation then screen the other’s countenance for signs of comprehension. Read More | Comment »

12:42PM Mon. Apr. 16, Russ Espinoza

Bedside Manner

Other than perusing book stores and occasionally the semi-annual Austin Record Convention, shopping of any sort is not high on my list of things I enjoy doing; never has been, and at my age, undoubtedly never will. Read More | Comment »

9:45AM Mon. Mar. 5, Jay Trachtenberg

Bedside Manner

I wear entirely too many hats. A full plate of life’s dreams and aspirations coming to fruition by way of my perpetually increasing to-do list coupled with an occasional OCD flare-up creates a perfect storm for me as I try to navigate this wooly world. Read More | Comment »

11:48AM Mon. Feb. 20, Jessi Cape

Bedside Manner: Into the Unknown (With a Slight Detour to New York)

"Adventure ho!" might as well be my running theme these days. It follows me from page to screen to life and back again, and though I write about it occasionally, others write of it better than I. My adventures pale in comparison. Read More | Comment »

9:10AM Mon. Feb. 6, Marc Savlov

Bedside Manner: The Never-Ending Battle

A grinning Superman statue stands watch on my bedside table, and I figure that grin across his invulnerable mug comes from seeing me locked in my own never-ending battle: to reduce the stack of reading matter that's perpetually replenishing itself in the manner of a Hydra. I finish one book, and two more pop up to take its place. Read More | Comment »

10:52AM Mon. Jan. 23, Robert Faires

Bedside Manner: Soi Cowboy Mouth

Nothing at all like a Gormenghastian tower
there on the bedside table. Read More | Comment »

9:30AM Mon. Jan. 9, BRNNR

Bedside Manner: Return to Bed Station Alpha

Top Floor: A recent subscription to The New Yorker was based on a life-long love of the cartoons published therein, collected volumes of which got me through the long winter days at my grandparents’ house in Okay, OK. Read More | Comment »

7:49AM Mon. Dec. 12, 2011, Jason Stout

Bedside Manner: Books In My Possession, Which I May or May Not Read

I’m a sucker for books. Reading them, however, not so much. Name a classic any self-respecting high school sophomore should have plowed through first semester – quick! Nope, never cracked it. (Somehow, they still gave me a diploma. And a job where I write. But I digress.) Read More | Comment »

4:09PM Thu. Dec. 1, 2011, Wells Dunbar

Bedside Manner: Vampire vs. Zombie

It was about a month ago that I was finally going to re-immerse myself in Dracula after all these years.  Read More | Comment »

7:00AM Mon. Nov. 14, 2011, Jay Trachtenberg

Bedside Manner: The October Country

My bedroom bookshelves are groaning under the weight of the collective wordage they support. The sagging and spindly frameworks of my World Market-purchased twin shelving units have begun to cant perilously catawampus, so much so that I fear, somewhat, for my safety. Read More | Comment »

8:15AM Mon. Oct. 31, 2011, Marc Savlov

Bedside Manner: Chasing the 'Infinite' Dragon

With books like Infinite Jest, you will almost always have some marginal opinion about them before you begin reading. I first encountered it during a writerly vetting process at some cocktail party, in which serious readers test each others' mettle by listing the books they've conquered, with bonus points for difficulty and relative obscurity. Read More | Comment »

9:03PM Mon. Oct. 17, 2011, Sarah Smith

Bedside Manner: The Book of Levi

How the hell do I explain this? Yes, this is a copy of Levi Johnston's tell-all on my bedside table. Yes, it's mine. Yes, I read it. What do you mean, who? Read More | 1 Comment »

8:02AM Mon. Oct. 3, 2011, Mike Crissey

Bedside Manner: Finishing What You Start

Completing an entire book has become more of a challenge, but I've had some recent successes: Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag and E.L. Doctorow's Homer and Langley. Next Up: The Stranger, by Albert Camus: Another read of this tattered 1958 reprint, this time with greater clarity. Read More | Comment »

3:55PM Sun. Sep. 18, 2011, Amy Smith

Bedside Manner: Hell on Earth

There is a time of mourning coming in my reading habits. Hellboy is dead, the X-Men are splitting, and the press releases in my inbox are either despairing or mindboggling. Read More | Comment »

4:48PM Tue. Sep. 6, 2011, Richard Whittaker

Bedside Manner: Isn't It Ironic?

“There was something about the luxury of the Welland house and the density of the Welland atmosphere, so charged with minute observances and exactions, that always stole into his system like a narcotic.” Read More | Comment »

11:41PM Sun. Aug. 21, 2011, Kimberley Jones

Bedside Manner: Return to Treehouse

Remember me? The heathen with no bed frame to speak of, let alone a bedside table? Read More | 1 Comment »

7:06PM Sun. Aug. 7, 2011, Monica Riese

What's Old Is New

The only cleaning up I did here was move the front stack of books from the footstool beside my bed to the nightstand. My books remain adult versions of cuddly toys I can't sleep without. Read More | Comment »

7:13PM Thu. Jul. 28, 2011, Margaret Moser

Flamingoing, Going, Almost Gone

Yes, that's a ceramic lampshade in the shape and color of a flamingo's head hovering over those books.

Of course it is. Read More | Comment »

1:13PM Mon. Jul. 11, 2011, Wayne Alan Brenner

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