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 solution to a catastrophic problem. The problem was the over-population of the...
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. Unnoticed, the grubs and snits, the moist soil where the bell tulip rots. I wait for the...
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. Hymn the sink hole. Hymn girder. Hymn cinder alley, maggot alley, the basketball-rimmed...
Brick wall scripture By Patrick T. Reardon Read the brick wall scripture. Fingertip the prophecy braille. Shakespeare wrote a Bible of plays. Macbeth’s sin (3 Samuel). Lear’s rage against the pain (Job). Iago, more evil than Judas. Will...
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign tackles an important subject in American history — the strike by Memphis sanitation workers in early 1967, the support given to the workers by civil rights and...
It’ll get you there By Patrick T. Reardon Follow 12 steps. Chew sugarless gum. Show up for counsel. Lines to stay within Enjoy breathing. Enjoy Diet Coke. Take medicine on time. Answer when asked. No need to understand. Check off boxes. Listen to...
Frederick Buechner’s 1997 novel On the Road with the Archangel is a wry, tender and knowing look at humans being humans. Which is to say, at the quirkiness at the center of what human beings say, do and think. It is a re-telling of the Book of...
Toni Morrison’s 1977 novel Song of Solomon is one of those great works of literature that demands re-reading. Once through isn’t enough. There is just too much going on for a reader to absorb. It’s like a complex piece of music — like a...
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