Search batty's booksRandom books from batty's libraryTalk Dirty to Me by Sallie Tisdale At Risk by Alice Hoffman The Food Lover's Handbook to the Southwest by Dave DeWitt (editor) Atomic Lobster: A Novel by Tim Dorsey The Raymond Chandler omnibus : four famous classics by Raymond Chandler Fields of the Atlantic monthly: letters to an editor, 1861-1870 by James C. Austin, Dr The Player by Michael Tolkin Members with batty's booksMember connectionsInteresting library: australwind, citygirl, ErnestHemingway, GirlMisanthrope, pricklypear, sylphette RSS feeds
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 Member: battyCollectionsYour library (921) ReviewsNone TagsFiction; Novels (454), Art/Photography/Design (49), Desert SW; Lit/Nat Hist/Cultures (48), Fiction; Short Stories (44), Food & Wine (36), Culture/History/Language (34), Reference (33), Cookbooks (32), Biography & Autobiography (31), Collections; Essays & Fiction (24) — see all tags Cloudstag cloud, author cloud GroupsNone Favorite authorsEdward Abbey, Margaret Atwood, Raymond Chandler, Harry Crews, James W. Hall, Jim Harrison, Barbara Kingsolver, Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Annie Proulx, Thomas Pynchon, John Updike, Eudora Welty (Shared favorites) About meBatty is the catalog-compulsive alter ego of longtime freelance writer and committed contrarian John Bancroft. Why batty? Because he is, and also because he is fond of bats: excellent creatures, fuzzy, fancy flyers, essential to a healthy environment, as well as being linked in the popular imagination with the vampire, that sturdiest and most protean of literary conceits and cultural totems. In a good month he pays the bills as Food & Wine Editor for SARASOTA Magazine and as a contributor to the St. Petersburg Times. He writes most often these days about food, wine, restaurants, travel and art. About my libraryIt spills onto the sofa, nightstand, dining room table, sideboard and the floor beside batty's desk. Like his garden, it is unruly and overgrown. Batty dreams of more shelf space but secretly likes the way his books take up residence wherever they damn well please. Homepagehttp://www.pictograph.com Also onFacebook Real nameJohn Bancroft LocationFlorida Account typepublic, lifetime URLs
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