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Tennessee Williams

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams

April 6, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Glass Menagerie “Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. To begin with, I turn bark time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them or they had failed […]

Jeanette Winterson; Joyce Carol Oates

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

American Melancholy by Joyce Carol Oates

April 6, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefs working around the clock.” Another reread of The Passion for me, this time specifically because I had the audiobook for it, and that tends to go very quickly. One thing about the audiobook that works here especially is that they used a male reader for the Henri sections, and a woman for the Villanelle sections. What stands out most to me this time around is the way in which in […]

Spring Cleaning

The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave

The Lemming Condition by Alan Arkin

Trump and Populism by Michael Kazin

How Do We Look by Mary Beard

Family Life by Russel Banks

Last Train from Perdition by Robert McCammon

The Rule of St Benedict by St Benedict

Theodore Roosevelt by Louis Auchincloss

April 4, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave “A young boy climbs a riverbank.” This tour memoir and more or less book of poetry opens up with the image above of a young boy climbing up a riverbank and feeling like he has a brush with a train passing close by. I was girding myself for the possibility that I had decided to read a book that Nick Cave write after the death of his son in a not impossibly similar situation. That would happen a […]

Spring Plays

Bump by Chiara Atik

Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet

Speed the Plow by David Mamet

Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill

American Buffalo by David Mamet

April 4, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Bump Completely unrelated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvPPA3Gv7RQ&ab_channel=SpankRock-Topic This more recent play begins with a few small moments in the life of a pregnancy. We start with a pregnancy message board specifically tied to “December Moms” based on their due dates, which the specific acknowledgement that some might have their babies in November, or January, or not at all, depending. From there, we move to our central players: Claudia is announcing her very early pregnancy to her parents. Her mom is excited, and her dad doesn’t initially understand what […]

Benjamin Labatut

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut

April 4, 2023 by vel veeter 1 Comment

“In a medical examination on the eve of the Nuremburg Trials, the doctors found the nails of Hermann Göring’s fingers and toes stained a furious red, the consequence of his addiction to dihydrocodeine, an analgesic of which he took more than one hundred pills a day.” There’s a few moments in this novel where the shape of the idea comes through most clearly. One moment comes when the reclusive mathematician, Alexander Grothendieck, is described with his shaved head as a lookalike for Michel Foucault. In […]

Bebe

Bringing Up bebe by Pamela Druckerman

Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems by Richard Ferber

April 3, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Bringing Up Bebe I was seeking one real thing from this book, and I got it. I was looking for an answer to my wife’s anxiety about the possibility of losing a ton of sleep in first few months of a new baby. I can lose however much sleep I want. Not only will I have a lot more time off initially, I tend to handle lack or loss of sleep perfectly fine. It’s one of my wife’s worst fears and anxieties. So this book […]

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