Nazis | Nazis
Apr.05.2013
“Do you want to save your painting?” Rita asked last Saturday, after we’d ransacked the basement storage areas in preparation for the move from Santa Monica to Brentwood.
“What painting?” I asked, wondering what the joke was.
“The ‘masterpiece’ you saved in Philadelphia. You threw the others out.”...
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Jan.04.2013
Photo: Movie poster from its Wikipedia page
Any Tarantino flick is worth seeing, and this one is no exception. Though worth seeing, however, I can't say it was on par with his latest and greatest. In fact, this one was the biggest disappointment for me since Jackie Brown....
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Jul.08.2012
Shortly before she passed away, my 99-year-old Aunt Irene asked if I would continue the upkeep of her sister’s grave. Something she had done for decades− since the bleak November morning, when Jean, her name was Jean, fastened her chestnut hair into plastic rollers, then hanged herself with the...
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Jun.06.2012
photo: cover of French version, second edition, from the book's Wikipedia page
Very effective book--about the French populace not recognizing the culpability of the French police being the Nazi's stooges in 1942--that would have been great without the emphasis on the present-day...
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May.28.2012
We've been searching for a new bank/credit union. Our current institution pays a low, low APR resulting in next to nothing in dividends. We want to stay local, however, but that's not the interest I'm thinking of right now. I'm thinking about the economy and politics.
I read an article about...
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Jan.19.2012
A board-certified internist, Dr. Allen Malnak served as chief of medicine at Fort Sill, OK, and was medical director of a number of organizations, including the Emergency Department of Chicago’s Mount Sinai Hospital. During his long medical career in the Chicago area, he was also a...
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Sep.08.2011
Dina’s Lost Tribe is a historical novel that weaves four different stories and spans from the 14th century to our present time.
Henner Marcus is a professor of French Medieval Jewish Philosophy based in Chicago. One day he receives a letter from his cousin, Nina Aschauer, who’s been...
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Aug.04.2011
First I heard that Hitler was a vegetarian. That was long after I had become a vegetarian and it left me with strange thoughts. Then I saw this old documentary about the Nazis and the occult. It left me feeling odd and curious watching Nazis swimming in the woods, enjoying the pleasures of nature...
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May.13.2011
A Trace of Smoke, by Rebecca Cantrell
During the two years of my MLA studies, I grew into a fascination with the emergence of Germany’s Third Reich – how it happened and why. Since, I’ve looked, beyond historical texts, to fiction relating to the years between the World Wars in Germany, and to...
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Apr.30.2011
One sentence summary:
The Gravediggers
Fears and bias surrounding an outbreak of TB in 1890s Exeter, Rhode Island, hide the scourge of a true vampire in the town and surrounding area. [May be combined with the Plague in 1665-6 Eyam, England and AIDS in early 1980s America, and a...
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