I have to admit having read Paul Auster only once before this year. So when I picked up The Brooklyn Follies a few weeks ago, I was not sure what to expect, or where the book might take me. On reading the first page I thought it might be a long drawn out [...]
Everyone who has taken a serious interest in the American novel (or any interest at all in late 20th century American writing) will know the name John Updike. Not merely because Updike was (and though he has left us, still is) a heavyweight fiction writer, but also because of the wide appeal of his work, [...]
If you’ve ever been ditched on Facebook then you know the awkward feeling that comes when it happens. At first it’s difficult to know who has ditched you because there’s no announcement, nor is there any indication that you’ve been ditched until you notice that instead of having 154 friends, you have 153. Or perhaps [...]
Jack Cafferty responds to Dick Cheney’s criticisms of President Obama http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/28/cafferty.cheney/index.html:
Now our reputation is shot, we are bankrupt, we continue to fight two wars that you started and the economy is in the worst recession since the Great Depression. And you have the temerity to go around criticizing those who replaced you? How dare you?
Bingo. [...]
From The Daily News, in light of the recent Swine Flu outbreak:
[R]ed-faced Republicans tried to explain why they stripped $780 million for pandemic flu preparedness from the economic stimulus package passed by Congress earlier this year.
From 1010 WINS, a person demonstrates the meaning of the “me” generation on Long Island:
Police say a driver irate to [...]
