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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. The nights are cool, but the days are warm enough to still qualify as summer. So here are two novels to tempt you. Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon is an historically inspired and riveting novel about Martha Ballard, a…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog Kamala Harris easily achieved her minimalist goal of responding to those wondering whether she could do an unscripted interview, without the benefit of a teleprompter, the hoopla of the national convention, backup pop stars, cascading balloons, and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Kamala Harris may have started her speech Thursday night as the little girl inspired by her mother to be anything she wanted to be, urged on by mommy to “do something” to challenge injustice, but the Democratic…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. I have covered Republican and Democratic national conventions from New York to Kansas City, but I’ve never seen a first night as electric as that which I viewed on television last evening. I did not take notes,…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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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