Saturday, October 30, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
I, of the Storm
Dark, the thunderous skies
erupt into light and sound
the heavens open up
and the rain begins
to pour down
Labels:
Bar None Group,
Barra de Navidad,
Charles Longstreet,
I of the Storm,
poem,
poet
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
The Raven
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door —
Only this, and nothing more.'
Monday, October 25, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
It's Not My Birthday — Kerouac Still Dead
The bloated corpse of Jack Kerouac was rushed to a hospital in Florida on October 20, 1969. Still breathing, he expired the next day. His death was attributed to natural causes — a lifetime of heavy drinking. Elsewhere in the cosmos a five-year-old boy sat at the bottom of a staircase in tears. Left in the care of an alcoholic World War II veteran and a German shepherd. The stairwell was his refuge.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Jacobson Wins Booker Prize
London author and columnist Howard Jacobson was named the winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction on October 12, for The Finkler Question, published by Bloomsbury. Jacobson has been longlisted twice for the prize, in 2006 for Kalooki Nights and in 2002 for Who's Sorry Now?, but has never before been shortlisted.
The Finkler Question is a novel about love, loss and male friendship, and explores what it means to be Jewish today. Said to have ‘some of the wittiest, most poignant and sharply intelligent comic prose in the English language', The Finkler Question has been described as ‘wonderful' and ‘richly satisfying' and as a novel of ‘full of wit, warmth, intelligence, human feeling and understanding'.
Labels:
2010,
Howard Jacobsen,
Man Booker Prize,
The Finkler Question
Saturday, October 2, 2010
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