Monthly Archives: June 2019
(A brief comment will help here. This book, the Inconclusive Rule, has four sections—in order they are: “Ordinarily, I …”; “Or I …”; “Julia & Jules”; and “Song.”) “I like the book very much, especially parts 2 and 3. For me, “Or I..” is about putting order in experience, or perhaps understanding the connections between all of the varied experiences one has in life. This is one of my personal obsessions, so I may be reading myself into them. …..
From my brother, Richard, ON MY BIRTHDAY (May 31, 2019) “Just reading The Laughing Heart and liking it very much. I find the metrics just pull me along from line to line and page to page and from idea to idea. Not what I expected; I find it enthralling. ”
Recent Posts
- An Exchange over Hugo’s “Les Misérables”
- JONATHAN FRANZEN’S “CROSSROADS”: SHOULD WE WANT A TRILOGY OF IT?
- SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA, AUGUST 2021: How A Few Recent Books by Black and Other Authors Have Changed One Old White American
- LOVE & THE FIRST LINE
- FOR PHILIP ROTH’S “EVERYMAN”
Recent Comments
- Henry Allen on the current project
- MaryAnne O'Neil on SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA, AUGUST 2021: How A Few Recent Books by Black and Other Authors Have Changed One Old White American
- Robert Arnold Johnson on SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA, AUGUST 2021: How A Few Recent Books by Black and Other Authors Have Changed One Old White American
- Robert Arnold Johnson on SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA, AUGUST 2021: How A Few Recent Books by Black and Other Authors Have Changed One Old White American
- Susan Pickett on SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA, AUGUST 2021: How A Few Recent Books by Black and Other Authors Have Changed One Old White American
