The blog is taking the day off today, Labor Day, but I am not. I am preparing an upcoming month full of excitement. You may have thought we used up the thrills quotient this weekend, what with finding an unidentified orange blob in a tree (Photo essay here) and having my question to Hisham Matar [...]
Special alert: A timely announcement given the happenings in Libya recently. BBC World Book Club used one of the questions I submitted in their interview of Hisham Matar. You can get the link to the broadcast and a download by going back to the review of In the Country of Men. Be patient, mine is [...]
Destination: Italy Movie: Three Coins in a Fountain (1954) Stars include Jean Peters, Dorothy McGuire, Maggie MacNamara, Clifton Webb, Rossano Brazzi and Louis Jourdan If you want a look at a foreign culture, the original Three Coins in a Fountain movie will do it for you. Yes, there is a lot about Italian culture, but [...]
