What Way My Journey Lies by Frank Fenton A beautiful book. A combination of Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Not a bad… Read more What Way My Journey Lies
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The Life to Come
The Life to Come and Other Stories by E. M. Forster Recently reading Forster’s A Room With a View made… Read more The Life to Come
A Room With a View
I received a $15 gift card as an appreciation from the Red Cross for donating blood a couple of months… Read more A Room With a View
In Schoneberg
They stepped off the train at Nollendorfplatz. Tom read from his phone. “It says to meet under the clock opposite the… Read more In Schoneberg
LACMA Found Poetry
A series of poems gleaned from the wall texts at the Los Angeles County Art Museum. Each poem is based… Read more LACMA Found Poetry
To Have and Have Not
To Have and Have Not, by Ernest Hemingway I was led to this novel because I had been reading Faulkner.… Read more To Have and Have Not
The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot I had been meaning to read The Mill on the Floss since… Read more The Mill on the Floss
Light in August
Light in August by William Faulkner After his first three novels (Soldier’s Pay, 1926, Mosquitoes, 1927, Sartoris, 1929) Faulkner published… Read more Light in August
Forgive Us Our Debts
The weather report said no rain until Thursday, but Abby knew not to trust an April forecast. In Texas you could… Read more Forgive Us Our Debts
Humboldt’s Gift
As a young man I read a lot of the big American, male, authors of the mid-twentieth century, many of… Read more Humboldt’s Gift