Why Statistics are like a Bikini... Jul 8, 2009
Author Rex Stout noted that "There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up." What happens when "1+1= 3" and things just don't add up. China's reported first-quarter 6. (Human Events Online)
At the Library Jun 18, 2009
The Who Done Its will meet at 7 p.m. June 24 in the Library Conference Room to discuss Champagne for One by Rex Stout. Video Comments. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
IN MY LIBRARY: ROBERT B. PARKER May 3, 2009
I moved on to Hammett and Chandler and Rex Stout, plus a host of lesser lights: Earl Stanley Gardener, Wade Miller, Ben Benson, Craig Rice, Phoebe Atwood Taylor, Ellery Queen, Geoffrey Homes. I don't read much fiction anymore. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Help! I’m trapped in long, obligatory read! Apr 2, 2009
Re-reading all the Rex Stout I can still find. I m crazy about Archie Goodwin. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Inventing back stories for Sam Spade Feb 8, 2009
True, Gores does a more convincing job for Hammett than some writers have done for themselves - surely no reader of Rex Stout, for instance, really believes that Nero Wolfe was ever a lithe mountain lad from Montenegro. It's plausible that Hammett's amoral yet moralistic detective Sam Spade might have fought in World War I, as Gores tells us he did, and that Dundy, Spade's blustering, ineffectual antagonist on the San Francisco police force, might once have been a strikebreaker. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
