Author: Cliff

April 18, 2005

>Moratorium?

>I have about 3,000 books. I’m certain of that because I entered them all into a database. What I’m less certain of is the…
April 17, 2005

>What kind of intelligence do you have?

> Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well.An elegant speaker, you can converse well…
April 17, 2005

>I Got Somebody in Staunton, by William Henry Lewis

>Amazon.com was pushing this on me for months before the book was actually published, no doubt because its robots recognized part of my shipping…
April 15, 2005

>Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train (Cont’d–Part I.7)

>7.At the bottom of the millpond lies a ruined slipper.Sleet falls slantwise into the canal. The gelid surface is blank with the pain of…
April 15, 2005

>The Book Quiz

> You’re A Theory of Justice! by John Rawls In the beginning, you lived in a town. The town had many problems!Rather than moving,…
April 14, 2005

>Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry

>I meant to read it years ago, but didn’t. This year I took it with me to Mexico to read while I attended Under…
April 13, 2005

>Ride on Bald Rock Hill

>My flash piece has just been posted on the beat Ride on Bald Rock Hill
April 11, 2005

>Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train (Cont’d–Part I.6)

>6.My father was never rewarded by the Board of governorsof the Atlantic Seaboardor by the Overseers of the Ohio & Gulf Mobileor by the…
April 8, 2005

>The Line of Beauty

>For the first 400 or so pages of The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst, I was sure the 2004 Man Booker Prize judges…
April 7, 2005

>123.5

>A new book meme circulating around the sphere is going by the name “123.5,” and its rules are these:1. Grab the nearest book.2. Open…