The Enormous Room — ee cummings
The Enormous Room by ee cumings, known and loved far and wide for his playful erotic, anarchic, love-full, meaning-full poems, …
Tag Archives: Books
“The Warriors” and “What It’s Like to Go to War”: Two Wars, Two Marines, Two Conclusions
I took on my first assigned reading in fifty years last month, for a seminar at Juniata college in Pennsylvania. …
Properties of Light — A Novel of Science and Sorrow
Being intrigued by the mysteries of physics, especially the exotic regions of quantum mechanics, does not mean understanding an iota …
A Little Kinder: An Old Friend Moves On
George Saunders, the celebrated American fiction writer, gave a commencement speech of the kind we all wish we’d had, to …
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, a Novel
Looking at a bookshelf while stopping through Winslow, Arizona I didn’t see a girl in a flat bed Ford but …
Elmore Leonard is El Hombre
Elmore Leonard has gone, leaving the finest, gun-tottinist gallery of characters on the range and in the hood this side …
Trans Atlantic by Colum McCann, A Novel
I took a break from my usual fare of fiction and philosophy about the darker reaches of human nature to …
Beautiful Souls: A Review
Some time ago I spent a weekend in the company of fellow Vietnam War resisters, trying to talk about what …
War: A Head Spinning Spiral
Reading a wonderful book, Beautiful Souls:Saying No, Breaking Ranks and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times, by Eyal …
Hannah Arendt: A Movie, A Book
In this 50th year following the publication of Hannah Arendt’s troubled and troubling book, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the …
The Joy of Old Age. (No Kidding.)
This site is not typically devoted to issues of aging; living is such a hunger in the writing and film …
Power: Decentralized and Centralizing All In One Net
We had the good fortune to wander into a Jason Lanier talk at Book Passages in Corte Madera a few …