Browsing Archive: November, 2011
Posted by Roger Boylan on Tuesday, November 22, 2011,
And so November's doleful anniversaries continue, this one 48 years to the day since that terrible day in Dallas. Continue reading ...
Posted by Roger Boylan on Monday, November 21, 2011,
I've been reading a lot of Julian Barnes, this year's Man Booker winner, as research for an essay on his work. I enjoy most of Barnes's ironic asides and dry witticisms, but this one stuck out:"Have I told you my Theory of Life, by the way? Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient dispatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations get... Continue reading ...
Posted by Roger Boylan on Friday, November 11, 2011,
