Click Here to Read: Philip Roth doesn’t live here anymore: A writer, a stonemason, an American friendship by Talya Zax on the Forward Website on May 17, 2020.
Philip Roth. Image: Antonio Monda Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
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Issac Bashevis Singer’s Petition to God
Click Here to Read: Issac Bashevis Singer’s Petition to God: A searingly personal, deeply moving prayer is discovered in the Nobel Laureate’s papers
BY Issac Bashevis Singer on the Tablet website on May 13, 2021.
Issac Bashevis Singer Image: Israel Press and Photo Agency. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
John Hopkins, colourful US novelist who chronicled the louche expat scene in Tangier
Click Here to Read: John Hopkins, colourful US novelist who chronicled the louche expat scene in Tangier – obituary: A central figure in the group that included Paul and Jane Bowles, he lived in a mud hut in the Marrakesh oasis with a Dutch baroness on the Telegraph Obituaries May 12, 2021.
John Hopkins (right) and Joe McPhillips (left) on ‘The White Nile Diaries’, with a white R50 BMW. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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POETRY MONDAY: April 5, 2021
Good Morning, Everyone:
No photo here this time, because we’re not celebrating just one poet, but all poets everywhere, throughout history. This is National Poetry Month here in the United States, where people have become newly aware of and grateful for poetry during our Corona-virus (hate even saying the word) lockdowns.
Reports are that, among the book-buying public, poetry sales are up, which is such good news. Poetry, as readers of this column surely know, heals the soul. It’s the best medicine we can get for the ailing souls we have right now.
Although I usually don’t recommend specific poets in April but rather give you the usual exhortation to search out poems – on your own shelves, in libraries and bookstores, this time I will.
So many people responded to the beautiful poem by the young Amanda Gorman, “The Hill We Climb,” that she read at Joe Biden’s Inaugural ceremony it was as if they had never heard a poem before. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: April 5, 2021