Friday, January 19, 2024

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, Deconstructed. Part One: How Edna Lustig raised her son to be a radical feminist.

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By the time I reached ten years of age, my reputation around Lustig’s—my parent’s ladies’ clothing store on the corner of Front Street an...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Of Ann Patchett and Ralph Lauren.

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In the title of this month's essay, I juxtapose the name of a well-known, bestselling novelist (who recently published her ninth novel e...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

"Please Forgive Me."

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Can you imagine living in a world where no one ever says to anyone else, "I was wrong to treat you that way. I'm truly sorry. Plea...
Monday, October 23, 2023

"Time After Time" in the novel, Cutting for Stone.

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Listening to "Time After Time" sung by Cindy Lauper with brilliant lyrics by Robert Hyman, I'm aware that time in fiction can ...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

The Cat With the Wandering Eye

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Ellie, the cat with the wandering eye, And the lingering thought, blinked, Ventured out, and, in a flying leap, left us And her compan...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Let Us Now Praise Elizabeth Strout.

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She grew up in rural Maine, largely self-taught, and when she sat down to write the novel that made her famous she swept aside all the nonse...
Saturday, August 5, 2023

Cutting for Abraham Verghese.

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This is my appreciation of three-time best-selling novelist Abraham Verghese who, in 2009, then largely unknown, published a novel entitled ...