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I have new work in The Bangalore
Review and Good Works Review. Thank
you to the editorial team at Bangalore Review and to Robert S. King, editor at
Good Works Review.
I dropped my subscription to
the local daily newspaper, and then became a subscriber to Love notes from Siel,
a weekly email on matters literary and otherwise by the Los Angeles-based
writer Siel Ju. I look forward to reading her
take on the world.
And a couple of things I’ve read
recently:
A Doll's House, by Henrik
Ibsen. This has lost its shock value as a woke piece for feminism, but I
think it has acquired an unintended legitimacy as a critique of the effect of contemporary
consumerism. (Perhaps a project that needs Greta Gerwig’s attention?)
From A Beginner's Guide to
Free Fall, by Andy Abramowitz, here is a quick bit of the fresh mouth repartee that I like in the book, a back and forth
between a dad (Davis) and his daughter (Rachel) who has just finished
kindergarten and will be starting first grade in September:
“You think Old Lady Janacek is
going to miss you?” Davis asked. This was how he referred to Rachel’s
twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher, because the name somehow worked.
“School’s over, and you’re officially a first grader. She’s lost you. You’re
moving on, never looking back.”
“I’ll see her in the hall,”
Rachel said, refusing to see sentimentality where it did not lie. “I’ll give
her a hug if she needs one.” She tugged a small continent of cheese off her
slice of pizza and dropped it into her upturned mouth. The open-jawed box in
front of them on the table was now empty of everything except crumbs, grease
stains, and smudges of sauce. Summer was on, school already a distant memory.
Bass players:
the young and the iconic.
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