The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Locker Room Talk: One Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside by Melissa Ludtke is a sports writer’s impressive account of her 1978 lawsuit against Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who had banned female reporters from interviewing baseball players in the locker…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. I thought the Boston Red Sox were well past their sordid corporate history of bigotry and ugly fans’ and players’ misbehavior. New ownership since 2002 has largely been a breath of fresh air. Gone are the overt…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. I was happier than I thought I’d be yesterday morning when Kamala Harris announced her selection of Tim Walz as her running mate. That quiet sense of elation rose to celebration last evening with their first joint…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl is a confection, set in the 1980’s in Paris. Stella, a 20-something copy editor in New York, leads a highly routinized life, the regularity of which is comforting to her. She is estranged…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. American Mother by Collum McCann is an as-told-to account by Diane Foley of the 2014 death of her son, freelance American journalist James W. Foley. McCann, the author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin, is a master storyteller, tells the…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Our phone has been ringing off the hook; our electronic mailboxes flooded. Friends, even staunch supporters of Joe Biden, have come to accept the idea that he is not well enough to serve another term. Worse, that…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Four days in the halcyon setting of the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox were not enough to insulate us from the political sturm und drang that erupted this past weekend. I joined others in shock and horror at the…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. James by Percival Everett tells the story of Huckleberry Finn’s escape from his drunken abusive father with slave Jim in pre-Civil War Missouri. As a child, I read Huckleberry Finn as a simple adventure tale; as a college student,…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Remember when we scoffed at Richard Nixon telling David Frost that the President couldn’t be prosecuted for Watergate because “when the President does it, that means it’s not illegal.” We thought that our Constitution established “a government…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Majorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Long Island by Colm Toibin is a May, 2024 sequel to his notable 2009 novel Brooklyn and follows its principal characters, Eilis Lacey, an Irish immigrant to Brooklyn in the 1950’s, and her husband Tony Fiorella, a plumber from a robust…
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