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Bicycle Writer
I’m so in love with William Saroyan‘s memoir The Bicycle Rider in Beverly Hills. It was given to me by a fellow teacher, a Saroyan scholar, at one of the schools where I teach. I haven’t read it all,...
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Being Dead is the Most Boring Experience in Life–Oscar Wilde (supposedly)
No, i’m not dead–but you wouldn’t know it based on my lack of posting lately. It’s been a hectic and challenging last few weeks. Some highlights: A couple of weeks ago, as you may know, I took Tom...
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The Best of Everything
I really shouldn’t have, but I bought this pulp novel on Ebay a week ago and just got it in the mail.–it was just a $1.99. I’m a sucker for these pulps from the 50s/60s–but especially if they’re film...
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Mr. Peabody’s Mermaid
For my birthday Ted got for me this great vintage Pocket Book, Peabody’s Mermaid, by Guy and Constance Jones–and it came today in the mail. The book, this version of which was published in 1948 (it...
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Happy New Year! (can I get a woot woot for 2011?)
I was thinking that putting a picture from The Poseidon Adventure on my New Year’s blog entry might be too foreboding but what the hell! I love the movie– you know, massive tidal wave flips over a...
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl–vintage paperback
Latest addition to my vintage paperback book collection: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl– with the 1959 George Stevens movie tie-in (the book features actress Millie Perkins on the cover). My...
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42
Turned 42 on Friday (April 29th). Ooof. 42. What does that even mean? My dad called me and left this message: Hey Bobby. Just called to wish you a happy birthday. Gosh, how old are you now? Let’s see,...
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Brown Bag Tuesdays
Tuesday I returned (at long last!) as co-host to San Diego Writers, Ink’s Brown Bag Drop-in Writing Group. I host it every other week but had taken a leave due to my teaching schedule last semester....
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Finding My Tribe
The NewYorker Summer Fiction Issue has arrived but so far I’ve only read the non-fiction parts of it. There are new fictions from George Saunders and Jeffrey Eugenides (two of my absolute faves) and...
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Pride (or is that an oxymoron here?)
I’ve hit the mother lode! My friend Justin brought over a huge box of vintage cookbooks for me– you know the kind your grandmother or mother had, with the really gloriously colorful, tacky photos in...
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