Poem: I want to teach Emma who is two
I want to teach Emma who is two By Patrick T. Reardon . I want to teach Emma who is two to look out this window at the chaos of [...]
I want to teach Emma who is two By Patrick T. Reardon . I want to teach Emma who is two to look out this window at the chaos of [...]
Five songs By Patrick T. Reardon . He restyled the opening words of Genesis as a country-western song, let there be light and all that, fruitful and multiply — drinking, [...]
Published in 1970, The City Dwellers by Charles Platt is based on the belief that cities were going to hell in a handbasket. One of Platt’s earliest published fiction books, [...]
Published on January 1, 1939, Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male crackles with tension and action, heightened by an unusual point of view — the perspective of a hunted man. Normally, a [...]
Maybe I’m not as good of a Yankee fan as I’d thought. Or maybe it’s something about baseball cards. Truth is, Bob Woods’ Yankee Greats: 100 Classic Baseball Cards, lushly [...]
Ours is an era in which novels, both high-brow and middle-brow, tend to stress the hardships and trauma of modern living. Recent bestsellers, for instance, tell stories about an abandoned [...]
“Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!” The voices of dozens of big-name African-American entertainers sang for joy in the song that came on when I started my car. It was the Hallelujah Chorus [...]
It was their first night on the small Soldier Island, and the group of eight guests had just dined on an excellent supper, served by Rogers the butler and prepared [...]
Seven Smith’s girlfriend Joy asks him about Jim Flood. “You speak of him with affection, yet he’s done such terrible things.” What kind of guy is he? Seven, a 21-year-old [...]
For one reason or another, I’ve owned a copy of the Richard Hughes novel A High Wind in Jamaica, for about 40 years, but it wasn’t until the past week [...]