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Painters of the Suburban Landscape
This morning I was reading a New York Times review of Cheever: A Life, Blake Bailey’s new biography of John Cheever, and I was reminded of the recent passing of John Updike. For me, it is nearly impossible to think … Continue reading
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“Grace in territory held largely by the devil”
This week at Salon.com, Allen Barra has published a review of a new biography of Flannery O’Connor. My first encounter with O’Connor was as a freshman English major in college, when I read “A Good Man is Hard to Find” … Continue reading
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Stony Brook Again
I’ve re-posted these pictures from Stony Brook, NY. I took them down because there was a dispute over who actually took them, my daughter or my sister. I wasn’t there at the time, so I can’t say definitively who took … Continue reading
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Fiction “A Couple” – Cantaraville Two (also available in the eBook Store) “Absolutely Fourth Street” – The Square Table “Bonnifer” – Lily (also available in the eBook Store) “Calvin’s Monster” – Word Riot “Indian Summer” - Cantaraville Four “Truths” – … Continue reading
