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Mar.22.2012
I attend many book clubs to talk about The Lotus Eaters, and I have been asked over and over by members to recommend my favorite books. Those of us who aren't English majors have often skipped what I'll call the contemporary classics in favor of what is newly published. This is a mistake in my...
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Mar.08.2012
Very proud of this story I wrote about relationship between young woman who survived terrible punishment & a Vietnam Vet http://bit.ly/xgX0Sg
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Feb.15.2012
The Third Reich, by Roberto Bolaño
image via cleveland.com
I'm posting a book review a little earlier in the week than usual - for the reason noted at the bottom of the post.
Right off the bat, let me say that this book isn’t about Nazi Germany any more than Norman Mailer’s book, “...
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Jan.20.2012
Once in a while tigers make international news, like the white tiger in Las Vegas that mauled illusionist Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy, or the one that killed a teenager at the San Francisco Zoo. Most of the time, though, the news is about tigers being eaten by man.
The latest involves a...
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Jan.05.2012
Unfinished Business in IraqUnfinished Business in Iraq
Each time Uncle Sam ventures abroad he leaves an unfinished story, and nowhere is it most unfinished than the story of Iraq, where despite flowery speeches regarding freedom and sovereignty by the Obama administration, despite...
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Dec.23.2011
Got the holiday cards from the family and exchanged holiday emails.
On the wife's side, her sister's manufacturing company is being sued by her former employer and her son has been diagnosed with PTSD.
J was in the Navy. After finishing with officer training, they wanted him for centerline...
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Dec.22.2011
Forgetting the Iraq War
American Wars used to end decisively. When Americans came back from defeating the Germans after World War II, there were ticker-tape parades. When the last U.S. helicopter lifted off from Saigon, Vietnam on April 30, 1975, the image seared deep into the American...
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Dec.03.2011
photo: Famous scene from Apocalypse Now, on http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/apocalypse.html
(this is a continuation of another post, which you can find here)
2. Look at the above list of works. Most of them are about the monster within. To borrow from Rousseau...
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Nov.07.2011
Last night I went to see the new movie, The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby, made by his son, Carl Colby.
In focusing on William Colby's professional career from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in WWII through being driven out of office as...
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Oct.29.2011
I find myself very amused by my continued checking of various sites (including this one) to see how many hits on my blogs and other things. And how it can either be very pleasing or a bit down heartening, For instance three days ago I had a spike here on Red Room where the hits jumped...
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