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  • Personal Posturings: Yahoos as Bloggers

    Before I begin this howl, I’ll define Yahoo as a lout, brute and coarse human being, the term itself derived from Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. I vaguely recall reading this fabulous book in the early years of college, thinking it was written for kids. Was I wrong! For the past year I tried to market my […]

  • Free Associations

    I have no particular theme to write about. I have no jawbone of an ass as Samson had to fight off the Philistines. A series of mental quarks come to mind and why fight them off. I saw Eastwood’s “Gran Torino” last evening surrounded by a gray-haired audience, including me, who laughed at all the […]

  • I Am With Child And Worry About Its Health

    Sojourner is the present manuscript I am enmeshed with, and it is not going well because I have lost faith in it. The second half of the book moves quickly, the first half seems too slow paced, although I have cut here and there. I lack the editing skills to reformulate, to shift chapters here […]

  • Down to a Sunless Sea Winner of Sixth Annual Noble Prize for Literature

    It is the Noble (Not Nobel) Prize for 2008. If you go to http://www.myshelf.com and press the Back to Literature column a little blurb comments on the book. Allow me to cite Carolyn Howard-Johnson at length: They say self-deprecating humor can be a good thing. So, know that the authors I pick for my Noble will never get […]