Book review: “Job: A New Translation” by Edward L. Greenstein
I know the title of Edward L. Greenstein’s Job, just published by Yale University Press, indicates that it’s a new translation of the biblical book composed about 2,600 years ago. [...]
Essay: Thank God for pain
The country duo Big & Rich (Big Kenny and John Rich) can be pretty goofy, but, on their 2014 album Gravity, they included a heartfelt song with the startling title [...]
Poem: “The fate of Billy the Kid”
The fate of Billy the Kid By Patrick T. Reardon Limerick sour hen, consort of thick-palm, bellied Patrick, cock of blind alley, Catherine grudged open to [...]
Essay: The day I fell in love with Emma
A couple months ago, I fell in love with a younger woman, a much younger woman. A girl, really. Well, actually, a baby. She was born a little after four [...]
The 757th post: My new look website
Back in 2011, my future daughter-in-law Tara Ruccolo took on the challenge to set up a website for her boyfriend’s technologically challenged father. It was a simple thing that debuted [...]
Book review: “Road Dogs” by Elmore Leonard
The novels that Elmore Leonard published in the final decade of his life were often all but plotless. That’s not to say that things didn’t happen, but there was a [...]
Book review: “Logan’s Run” by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson
Logan’s Run, published in 1967 by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson is a clever science-fiction novel about a world that has been twisted out of shape by the [...]
Poem: “Wait”
Wait By Patrick T. Reardon I wait for the stone to pass, for the heel to heal, for the tick to tock. I wait out the clock. [...]
Poem: “City hymn”
City hymn By Patrick T. Reardon Hymn the sewer line. Hymn the rhythm. Hymn mown grass, dawn-sun broken glass, ash tray brass, my scar, the rusted-nail fall. [...]