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Oh William!

https://amzn.to/3lk2YA0 Every baby boomer should read this book. Getting old is weird, in ways they never told you about. Sure, you regret the time you wasted. And you know so much more but nobody wants to listen to you. But the most revelatory thing is you just don’t care. It happens almost overnight. Suddenly you […]

The Franzen Book

“Crossroads”: https://amzn.to/30LsLK5 This is an incredible piece of work. But not everybody will enjoy it. Because it’s written for a small coterie of industry insiders and Iowa Workshop believers and this makes it a bit difficult to read and is the case with all of the works lauded by these cliques, plot is secondary. But […]

The Sound Of Gravel

https://amzn.to/3CjD3hU I was afraid to go to sleep. Then again, I didn’t want to, I wanted to stay up another hour or so to finish the book but it was already long past midnight. There’s initial publicity about books, but most books catch fire and last as a result of word of mouth. That’s how […]

Stella

https://amzn.to/37LkiGJ This is a Nazi book. World War II seems like ancient history, but in the sixties it was only twenty years previous. If you were Jewish you were still on guard, and ironically after the ensuing decades you are once again. There were trials and memorials and by time one hit the seventies there […]