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Category Archives: Books
“Annoying” by Definition
Everyone’s noting Sarah Palin’s hypocrisy in screaming for Rahm Emanuel’s firing over the word “retarded” while giving Rush Limbaugh a pass for repeating the term over and over on a broadcast. Indeed, she couldn’t bring herself to criticize somebody on her own team, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Uncategorized
Tagged George Orwell, Jonathan Swift, Politics and the English Language, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, satire
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Annoyed Once Again
I enjoyed Adam Gopnik, the New Yorker writer, last night on Charlie Rose to eulogize J. D. Salinger, even though Gopnik is sometimes so articulate as to be glib; he churns out those complete-sentence responses like an eager-to-please student. I like … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Uncategorized
Tagged Adam Gopnick, Charlie Rose, Eudora Welty, J.D. Salinger
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Same or Different?
Okay. People have commented on reading books over again and listening to pieces of music over and over again. (See the Comments, below, on Rereading + J.D.) I’m curious to know more about what movies people have seen multiple times. Is there something you’ll watch every … Continue reading
Another Loss
One more book to read and reread — A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn, who died last week. Watch this inspiring interview on Bill Moyers. Zinn is an inspiration himself, of course, but he often celebrates ordinary people, in this case, … Continue reading
Rereading + J.D.
“…those four extraordinary books that bear rereading again and again and again.” — Robert Thompson, Syracuse University, tonight on The Newshour When I heard about the death of J.D. Salinger today on the radio, I wondered if I had anything … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Movies
Tagged Charlotte's Web, J.D. Salinger, Little Women, Moby-Dick, The Aeneid, The Brothers Karamazov, The Catcher in the Rye
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Ten “Bests”
The writer Kris Ohlson has been passing around this essay from The Washington Post, via email and her Facebook page, by Julianna Baggott, called “The Key to Literary Success? Be a Man — or Write Like One.”   Baggott points out that Publishers Weekly‘s … Continue reading
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