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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. The author of The Underground Railroad has done it again, this time with a story of a prison-like reform school in Florida. Worse-than-Dickensian abuse occurred throughout this narrative, based on the real-life…
Read More »Writer Stephen O’Connor of Lowell recalls his neighbor in the Highlands and a fellow writer from the city. Since last fall, this blog has become a resource site for information about writers with links to Lowell, emphasizing people who are active now but also adding profiles of writers from the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout. If you enjoyed Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge , you will love reading Olive, Again, the sequel. Oh, to be able to write like Elizabeth Strout! Olive is sui generis……..except I find in…
Read More »Remembering the artist Carol Durand of Dracut, former director of the Whistler House Museum of Art and cultural activist in Lowell in the 1980s and ’90s, particularly. She passed away after a long illness. By way of San Antonio, Texas, and Mass. College of Art in Boston, her roots in…
Read More »Memories of Thanksgiving Days in our past are first about the food… the sense of smell is closely linked with memory, probably more so than any of our other senses… think of your family Thanksgiving gatherings… This morning Face Book popped up this photo ~ Thanksgiving Day, 2014… Billy and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The hammering from daily political news has kept me away from devouring my normal quota of books on contemporary politics. If you too are on overload, here are some non-fiction alternatives I’ve recently enjoyed. The River of Doubt:…
Read More »‘My Politics’ (chapter excerpt) by Paul Marion Left, Mrs. Kennedy trying to reach a Secret Service officer after the shooting of her husband, President John F. Kennedy; right, JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy before the shooting in Dallas, Texas. (Web photos courtesy of express.com) Fourth grade. Nine years old. Friday afternoon…
Read More »The Waitresses of America By David Daniel The trucker crumpled his napkin, dropped it on the Formica counter, and rose. “You’re brave, young lady,” he said. The waitress smiled tentatively. “I am?” “Serving food this bad? Shit, yeah.” From where I sat three stools away I saw her cheeks warm,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. There is no better campaigner than Deval Patrick. He’s charismatic, warm, visionary and inspirational. He appeals to our better sides, and has the kind of personality that really could help to heal the searing wounds of division. That…
Read More »A Message from the folks at Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!, the organization that has been producing literary activities in Lowell since the late 1980s. To Our Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Friends: You are invited to a program that accompanies an Exhibit of some of the posters from many of the Lowell Celebrates…
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