This was a very enjoyable book. Sarah Vowell does an admirable job describing the summer soldier, the winter soldier, and the partly cloudy patriot. I like Sarah Vowell, but I suspect she does not smoke camels, or get drunk alot. This could come between us, if we were ever to meet. [...]
Many writers and critics commented upon this novel, and I can not hope to equal their insight. Just read the dust jacket. I read Divisadero in a day. I read the book in a day because I wanted to find out if the thief was Caravaggio from ‘In the Skin of a [...]
On the fourth of July eighteen hundred and sixWe set sail from the sweet cove of CorkWe were sailing away with a cargo of bricksFor the grand city hall in New York‘Twas a wonderful craft, she was rigged fore-and-aftAnd oh, how the wild winds drove her.She’d got several blasts, she’d twenty-seven mastsAnd we called her [...]
Stories are wonderful things- but from the outside looking in, Ed, everytime. From the inside looking out, not so good.
-James M. Cain
Jealous Woman
One can make literature out of anything.
-André Gide
At the time I was the night manager of a tall hotel along the Monongalia river. The hotel was five stories tall, and the top were large apartments full of people who afforded the space. The Monongalia river was mostly muddy and flowed north. The river wound its way north as a [...]
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