PinnedMcCarthy Upsets LauraAfter a long absence from fiction, Cormac McCarthy returns with a double dose of his bleak imaginings with this month’s release of this…Oct 29, 2022Oct 29, 2022
the ECHO MAKER by Richard PowersThe Echo Maker has been called a “post 911 novel”,a description that seems to fit in that its central metaphor is the yearning for a time…Nov 2Nov 2
DID SOMEONE KILL PAINTING?. Back in the late Nineties I was involved in an online debate as to whether painting were a dead art , in view of the then emerging new…Sep 30Sep 30
BIG IF : A Comic Novel About The Secret Service and Insurance InvestigatorsRecent controversies about how well the Secret Service can provide protection for past and current American presidents commends us to have…Sep 21Sep 21
2 NOVELS BY RICHARD POWERSThe Echo Maker has been called a “post 911 novel”,a description that seems to fit in that its central metaphor is the yearning for a time…Sep 21Sep 21
JOHN MAYALL ,RIPWhile scrolling through the headlines one morning, alternating between laughter and grunts at the day’s news, I abruptly stopped. A story…Sep 14Sep 14
THE BOYS OF SUMMERThe Eagles : a band I loathe-a troupe of musicians with obvious talents as songwriters, instrumentalists, and vocalists-who try too hard…Aug 28Aug 28
2 Dean Young PoemsUpon Hearing of Another Marriage Breaking Up is a poem that reads as it were edited with a lawnmower. Author Dean Young reads this poem in…Aug 25Aug 25
THE SADNESS THAT REMAINS AMY WINEHOUSEThis is too sad for words, all the talent that Amy Winehouse had now silenced because she couldn’t muster up the strength to confront what…Aug 8Aug 8