1 “Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire”: https://amzn.to/3h39lpW Monday I decided to replenish my stock of St. Ives face scrub. An old girlfriend had turned me on to Aapri, but they stopped making that, so I switched to St. Ives, which is a bit rougher, but I’ve gotten used to […]

“American Dervish”: https://amzn.to/3sNRaYh “Infinite Country”: https://amzn.to/3rS1u0a “American Dervish” is the first novel written by Ayad Akhtar, who wrote one of last year’s absolute best books, “Homeland Elegies.” It’s not as good. When you get into something, you want more of it, you want to go on an excursion into the past, find out everything about […]

Now THAT’S a rock star! I’m trying to remember the first time I encountered Henry Huggins. Back in the fifties, you didn’t learn how to read before you went to school, not even in kindergarten, reading was for the first grade. My younger sister Wendy always told us she could read at three, but I […]

1 When I was in fifth grade Mr. Luti had a metal box where you placed  your book reports. These were for pseudo credit. Kind of like when he asked everybody to tell him how much time they watched PBS. I didn’t watch it at all, but I said something like three and a half […]