book talks | book talks
Feb.28.2011
All the King's Men, the 1947 Pulitzer prize winner by Robert Penn Warren, has been made into two films and an opera.
In brief, it is a novel about the rise and fall of a Southern Depression era politician for the people--Willie Stark--and the people who love and hate him.
Some say its the...
|
May.05.2009
My long gone grandmothers would never have written essays about being grandmothers. For one thing, Grandma Rose, a seamstress born in Shepetovker, Ukraine, could not read or write. Thoroughly modern American-born Grandma Becky, a ballerina in her youth and Bloomingdales salesperson in an era when...
|