Here it is September, and not only that but mid-September, and I have not posted my periodic list of books absorbed. This will be the second year I have attempted a complete list of books. Some I read, some I hear, as CD sets in the car while commuting. January 2011 Memento Mori, by Murial […]
And I feel like a beetle on its backAnd there’s no way for me to get upLove’ll get you like a case of anthraxAnd that’s something I don’t want to catch— Gang of Four, “(Love Like) Anthrax,” 1978 Copyright 2011 Ben S. Pollock JUST AFTER ELEVEN — Two hundred eighty-something million Americans had nothing on […]
This column first was published as the “President’s Message” in the September 2011 newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. The board of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists has been cleaning up after the party in Detroit. While washing glasses and emptying the trash, we share the usual mix of gleeful recollection of […]