Memory, hold the door – maybe
Here in South Carolina, our State Bar issues a regular call for a ‘Memory Hold The Door’ moment. I have been licensed here in the Palmetto State for thirty-five years but as to this particular pitch, I have never paid much attention to it as it is, as best I can tell,...
Recommended Read: A Worse Place than Hell by John Matteson
First, a proviso: The jacket blurb, ‘How The Civil War Battle Of Fredericksburg Changed A Nation’ is blatant hyperbole, misleading and a publisher’s (Norton) play to author Matteson’s previous Pulitzer Prize win; note to the alerted:He ain’t gonna win a Pulitzer...
Back on the road again, we hope!
O.K. I’ll admit it. With very few and minuscule exceptions, I have studiously avoided speaking to this terrible, frightening COVID-19 year. Why? A number of reasons. If I ignored it, I did not have to think about it so directly and thus it was pushed to the back of my...
Reading Rec: My Losing Season by Pat Conroy
emphatically and brutishly prided itself on ‘Mens Room ONLY’ mind-set.Toss in his obscenely cruel, son of a bitch father and it is a witches brew that entices, draws in and finally consumes the reader. Conroy’s writing is at times laugh out loud funny, often raw, sad,...