Month: August 2007
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Nick Flynn’s Another Bullshit Night In Suck City
For the next few weeks, I’ll be reviewing a series of books having little at all to do with one another, except that they fit within the non-fiction genre. The first one, Another Bullshit Night In Suck City, will be referred to hereafter as ABNISC. First, I don’t like the title (I’m not intimidated at…
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Selected Shorts V
Haven’t done one of these in a long time. I’m doing it now primarily to solicit comments on the new blog(s) format. Tell me what you think, especially if the new name resonates. School starts again next week – my last one of coursework – then the masters project. And as you may have guessed,…
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Retrospective
No post last week: I drove a pick-up load of my mother-in-law’s memorabilia to Texas, and into my wife’s sister’s keeping. The last parceling of a deceased one’s possessions. Along the way, I visited a cousin recovering from prostate cancer, he dealing with his own mother’s last days, a swell as fractious siblings. On the…