Featured Reviews

The Reluctant Dragon (1898) - Kenneth Grahame  (Grade:A)

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One Day—and One Night—in Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen (essay) (2000) - Anthony Bourdain  (Grade:B+)

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The Ugliest Pilgrim (story) (1969) - Doris Betts  (Grade:B+)

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Murder! (story) (1927) - Arnold Bennett  (Grade:A+)

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Grizzly Central (Essay) (2011) - John Gierach  (Grade:A+)

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Liberalism as a Way of Life (2024) - Alexander Lefebvre  (Grade:B)

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The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind (1920) - H. L. Mencken - George Jean Nathan  (Grade:B+)

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A Meeting in Middle-Age (1964) - William Trevor  (Grade:A+)

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Bernice Bobs Her Hair (story) (1920) - F. Scott Fitzgerald  (Grade:B+)

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The Sporting Genius of the English-Speaking Peoples (essay) (2022) - Rachel Lu  (Grade:A+)

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Baiting the Ump (essay) (1910) - George Jean Nathan  (Grade:B)

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The Work of Evil (story) (1963) - William Croft Dickinson  (Grade:B)

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Evo Havel (story) (2020) - Brian Evenson  (Grade:A+)

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America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life (2022) - Claire Rydell Arcenas  (Grade:A)

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Hillbilly Elegy (2016) - J. D. Vance  (Grade:B)

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The Shining (1977) - Stephen King  (Grade:C-)

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The Black Spider [Die schwarze Spinne] (1842) - Jeremias Gotthelf  (Grade:A)

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The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. : J. Henry Waugh, Prop. () - Robert Coover  (Grade:A-)

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

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Gladiator (2000) - Ridley Scott  (Grade:A)

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Nochnoy Dozor [Night Watch] (2003) - Timur Bekmambetov  (Grade:A)

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The Straight Story (1999) - David Lynch  (Grade:A)

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Brothers Judd Daily

Brothers Judd QuasiDaily Bookmarks:
11/06/24:

Arturo Sandoval (1949-) was born in Artemisa, Cuba on November 6, 1949. Read Orrin's review of For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000) (directed by Joseph Sargeant 1925-)

James Jones (1921-77) was born in Robinson, IL on November 6, 1921. Read Orrin's review of his National Book Award winner From Here to Eternity (1957)(Grade: A+)(#62 on the Modern Library Top 100 Novels of the Century)

Mike Nichols (1931-) was born in Berlin, GER on November 6, 1931. Read Orrin's review of What Planet Are You From? (2000)

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) was born in Cummington, MA on November 3, 1794. You assuredly remember reading Thanatopsis in school.

Bette Bao Lord, author of In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (1987), was born in Shanghai, China on November 3, 1938

James Knox Polk (1795-1849) was born in Mecklenburg County, NC on November 2, 1795.

Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) was born in Corsica (now Blooming Grove), OH on November 2, 1865.

Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was born in Newark, NJ on November 1, 1871. Read Orrin's review of The Red Badge of Courage (1895)(Grade: A)

On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther set off the Protestant Reformation when he posted his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace.

Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (1932-) was born in Qing Jiang, Jiangsu, China on October 31, 1932. Read Orrin's review of Bridge to Terabithia (1977)

Don Winslow (1953-) was born in New York, NY on October 31, 1953. Read Orrin's review of A Cool Breeze on the Underground (1991)

John Adams (1735-1826) was born in Braintree, MA on October 30, 1735. In one of life's more delightful ironies, he and his friend and rival Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4th, 1826, the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration which they cowrote.

Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972) was born in Hailey, ID on October 30, 1885.

Henry Green (Henry Vincent Yorke)(1905-73) was born in Tewkesbury, England on October 29, 1905. Read Orrin's review of Loving (1945)

James Boswell (1740-95) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on October 29, 1740. His Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) essentially created the modern biography.

Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) was born on in London, England on October 28, 1903. Read Orrin's reviews of A Handful of Dust (1934)(Grade: B) Scoop (1937)(Grade: B+), Brideshead Revisited (1945)(Grade: C) and The Loved One (1948) (Grade: A)

Dylan Thomas (1914-53) was born in Swansea, Wales on October 27, 1914. He is best remembered for his poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night and A Child's Christmas in Wales (1955) (Grade: A)

Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, MA on October 27, 1932. Brothers Judd recommends her book The Bell Jar (1963), bad reviews for which were supposedly the proximate cause of her decision to kill herself.

Francis Fukuyama (1952-) was born in Chicago, IL on October 27, 1952. Read Orrin's review ofThe End of History and the Last Man (1992) (Grade: A+)