April 2010

  • Are you prepared?

    ARE YOU PREPARED? OK, we all know about the necessity of being prepared.  We heard, saw, and felt the devastation of  Katrina in 2005, and thought that we should make a plan. The recent earthquakes in Haiti , Chile and southern California renewed those thoughts.  As much as it is obvious for us to be… Continue reading

  • My Heart Flooded with Water : Selected Poems by Alfonsina Storni

    Thanks to Orlando Ricardo Menes’ translation of My Heart Flooded with Water : Selected Poems by Alfonsina Starni, Argentine’s most important female poet, an English reader has a chance to get acquainted with some of the most original and beautiful poems written in the two decades of 1919-1938. Storni preceded her call by a generation; a lonely… Continue reading

  • Still More Books Worth Talking About

    Here is another mixed batch of literary food for thought, and for discussion. The Condition, by Jennifer Haigh The McKotch family unravels during the summer of 1976 when 13-year-old Gwen is diagnosed with Turner’s syndrome, leaving her forever trapped in the body of a child. Twenty years later, the three siblings are still dealing with… Continue reading

  • Great writers born in 2010, so far.

    It seems as though we’ve lost an awful lot of writers in 2010, and the year’s still young. Many will remember where they were when they heard J.D. Salinger was gone, and the recent deaths of Robert B. Parker, Dick Francis, Kage Baker, Louis Auchincloss, Barry Hannah, Erich Segal, Howard Zinn and others have made this… Continue reading