FLANNERY O’CONNOR, THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN, A SHORT STORY REVIEW Flannery O’Connor was author of the week ...
Svetlana Alexievich was the author of choice at my Wednesday short story review group. The story was a chapter from ...
Note: I didn’t have a script for the movie so I’ve approximated dialogue as I remembered it. It’s not exact, ...
I loved this movie. It had just the right combination of dark humor, zaniness and bookishness for my tastes. I ...
The Giver starring Jeff Bridges in the title role, Meryl Streep as the Chief Elder, Brenton Thwaites as Jonas and ...
Ralph Ellison, Author of The Invisible Man Ralph Ellison, author of the week in my Wednesday Writing Group, wrote ...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez It was a sunny day in Jakarta, around the year 1975 when I discovered him. My husband ...
From the previews, the movie Gloria looked like a Chilean chick flick for older women. What I thought would be ...
Aren’t You Happy With Me? is the second story we have read of the incomparable writer, Richard Bausch. The first ...
This post is a piggyback on Franz Kafka and Rationalization based on reading The Penal Colony posted on February 6, ...
(Read it at http://www.kafka-online.info/in-the-penal-colony.html) We are observers in life, travelers, and as we travel, we soak in the moral atmosphere ...
The Observer newspaper said this about the movie Philomena. “Sensitively and carefully directed by Stephen Frears and brilliantly written by ...
I have a great love of research. I think I would have been perfectly happy in life if I could ...
I loved this story. I liked the way he broke up the sections and named each part. I like the ...
Alexander Payne’s new film, Nebraska, is on the short list for an academy award and has received six Independent Spirit Award nominations, ...
Last night I watched Last Tango in Paris with Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider. Wow, is she beautiful. Women in ...