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Grizzly Central (Essay) (2011) - John Gierach  (Grade:A+)
A Rose for Emily (story) (1930) - William Faulkner  (Grade:B+)
Liberalism as a Way of Life (2024) - Alexander Lefebvre  (Grade:B)
The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind (1920) - H. L. Mencken - George Jean Nathan  (Grade:B+)
A Meeting in Middle-Age (1964) - William Trevor  (Grade:A+)
Baiting the Ump (essay) (1910) - George Jean Nathan  (Grade:B)
The Sporting Genius of the English-Speaking Peoples (essay) (2022) - Rachel Lu  (Grade:A+)
Bernice Bobs Her Hair (story) (1920) - F. Scott Fitzgerald  (Grade:B+)
The Dead (1914) - James Joyce  (Grade:B-)
Evo Havel (story) (2020) - Brian Evenson  (Grade:A+)
The Work of Evil (story) (1963) - William Croft Dickinson  (Grade:B)
A Good Death (essay) (2024) - Neko Case  (Grade:B+)
The King of the Ferret Leggers (essay) (1983) - Donald R. Katz  (Grade:A+)
America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life (2022) - Claire Rydell Arcenas  (Grade:A)
Hillbilly Elegy (2016) - J. D. Vance  (Grade:B)
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. : J. Henry Waugh, Prop. () - Robert Coover  (Grade:A-)
MOVIE REVIEWS:


The Man Who Would Be King (1975) - John Huston  (Grade:A)
Unbreakable (2000) - M. Night Shyamalan  (Grade:A-)

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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) was born in Iona Station, Ontario on October 15, 1908. Read Orrin's review of The Affluent Society (1958)


Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was born in Prussia on October 15, 1844. Read Orrin's review of The Birth of Tragedy (1872)(Grade: C)


Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-) was born in Denison, TX on October 14, 1890. Read Orrin's review of Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair (1986)(Michael R. Beschloss 1955-) (Grade: A)


E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings (1894-1962) was born in Cambridge, MA on October 14, 1894.


Chuck Yeager broke the Sound Barrier on October 14, 1947, flying 670 miles per hour in a Bell X-1 rocket plane. Read Orrin's review of The Right Stuff (1979)(Tom Wolfe 1931-) (Grade: A+)


Albert Jay Nock (1872-1945) was born in Scranton, PA on October 13, 1870. Read Orrin's review of Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943) (Grade : A+)


The blessed Margaret Thatcher (1925-) was born in Grantham, ENG on October 13, 1925. Read Orrin's review of Thatcher For Beginners (1997)(Peter Pugh and Carl Flint)


Conrad Richter (1890-1968) was born in Pine Grove, PA on October 13, 1890. Read Orrin's review of The Light in the Forest (1953)(Grade: C)


Virgil (70 B.C.?-19 B.C.) was born in Mantua, in Cisalpine Gaul on October 13, 70 BC. Read Orrin's review of The Aeneid (19 B.C.)(Grade: A)


Elmore Leonard (1925-) was born in New Orleans, LA on October 11, 1925. Read Orrin's review of Swag (1976)(Grade: A)


Jill Ker Conway (1934-) was born in New South Wales, Australia on October 9, 1934. Read Orrin's review of her memoir, The Road from Coorain (1989)(Grade: C)


Walter Lord (1917-) was born in Baltimore, MD on October 8, 1917. Read Orrin's review of Day of Infamy (1957) (Grade: A)


Thomas Keneally (1935-) was born in Sydney, Australia on October 7, 1935. Read Orrin's review of Schindler's List (1982)(Grade: A)


Caroline Ferguson Gordon (1895-1981) was born in Merry Mont, KY on October 6, 1895. Read Orrin's review of Aleck Maury, Sportsman (1934)


Chester Alan Arthur (1830-86) was born in Fairfield, VT on October 5, 1830. The Internet Public Library is good source for info on Presidents.


Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893) was born in Delaware, OH on October 4, 1822. You can find his Diary & Letters online.


Hugh Brody (1943-) was born on October 4, 1943. Read Orrin's review of The Other Side of Eden : Hunters, Farmers and the Shaping of the World (2001)


Alain-Fournier [Henri Alban Fournier] (1886-1914) was born in La Chapelle-d'Angillon, FR on October 3, 1886. Read Orrin's review of The Wanderer or The End of Youth (1912).


James Herriot, author of the All Creatures Great and Small Series, born in Glasgow, Scotland, October 3, 1916.


Graham Greene (1904-1991) was born in Hertfordshire, England on October 2, 1904. Read Orrin's reviews of : The Heart of the Matter (1948)(Grade: A); The Third Man (1950)(Grade: A-); & The Quiet American (1956)(Grade: A)




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