Yearly Archives: 2009

Gifts Epilogue: Christmas 1979

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

An epilogue to the previous post, “Gifts.” On Christmas Day of 1979, my parents, my sisters, and I drove out to Stony Brook to visit with Oma and Opa.  Opa was in the terminal stage of the cancer that would … Continue reading →

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Gifts

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

Part 1: This essay was originally published three years ago in Seeker Magazine.  When I began writing it, my only intent was to document a family story that was going to be forever lost due to the passage of time.  … Continue reading →

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Into the Abyss

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

When Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City was published in 1984, it took the publishing world by storm and ushered in a new era of edgy young writers.  Bright Lights, Big City chronicles the emotional, psychological, and spiritual downward spiral … Continue reading →

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Hangover Theory of Economics

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy– they smashed up things and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had … Continue reading →

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My Old Man, BS Ph

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

The price war that erupted this week among Amazon, Wal-Mart, Target, and Barnes & Noble has authors, publishers, and independent booksellers nervously speculating about what the future holds for them.  Ironically, Barnes & Noble, whose sheer size gave it pricing … Continue reading →

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