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Comments on Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts
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Todd Tarbox, grandson of Roger Hill, headmaster of the famous Todd School for Boys, Woodstock, Illinois, along the progressive approach of A.S. Neill’s Summerhill, and the son of Hascy Tarbox, younger classmate and perhaps rival to Orson Welles contacted me after seeing some reference to Welles by me. Over the years, hear and there, I have written […]
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The New Novel Died Aborning
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As usual I dated the first page (April 1,2013), an historical thing with me as I have always dated new work since I began writing more than four decades ago. I wrote in spurts with several days between new writing and this was not my usual way which is to pour it out in blasts […]
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Memory Traces
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I went to Starbucks Sunday because I had an attack of spilkes. I ordered a cappacino grande and a piece of cinnamon cake most of which I threw away because I had to begin fasting for a blood test tomorrow, my semi-annual anxiety trip. In addition to which my physician retired with very short notice […]
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Lara’s Book Club Review
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Review of “This Mobius Strip of Ifs” at Lara’s Book Club Recap: In our younger years, we are lost, with the hope that as we grow older, we’ll better understand ourselves, others, and the world as a whole. That’s what Mathias B. Freese attempts to do in his collection of personal essays This Mobius Strip of […]