“Intermezzo”: https://t.ly/PviP_ Don’t run out and buy this book without reading the below! Sometimes people see a headline and they take that as a ringing endorsement. This is a little more complicated. In case you don’t know, Sally Rooney is the hot new Irish writer. Well, not so new anymore. Her first book came out […]

https://shorturl.at/RdLfw This is a fantastic book. (And easy to read too!) For those of you not on the Strout train… You’re the lucky ones, because you can go back and read all the books that preceded this one. If, like me, you’re totally up to date, you’ll be fascinated by the fact that seemingly every […]

Re: Nick Gravenities Thanks for paying tribute to Nick. I have a lot of great memories of Nick. It’s interesting that he has a current album out. I’m honored to have played on it while remembering rehearsing with Nick in his parents basement in Chicago in the early 60s. So much happened between then and […]

I am not going to write about your book. Writing is a profession. What makes people who’ve run out of jobs and self-publish their story believe that people want to read what they have to say? I don’t want to write this. I’m sick and tired of the attitude I’m displaying here. This is what […]