Seamus Heaney Gone, Long Live His Tongue
Seamus Heaney has left us a lifetime-left of reading and contemplation. Here are two from “The Cure at Troy,” Heaney’s …
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Stride Piano at SF Jazz
Wow! I had not been to the new SF Jazz center which opened this past January until Sunday night when …
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 …
Blue Jasmine — Woody’s Latest
There is something about watching a Woody Allen movie that always starts me squirming in my seat. Blue Jasmine, his …
August 9, 68 Years Later
More at BBC and The Guardian
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Baines Johnson by Robert Caro
Robert Caro, a journalist and historian, is interested in power, its accumulation, its use and abuse in the hands of …
Failures of Kindness
George Saunders says: “What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. “ A review of his book …