Featured Reviews

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

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A Rose for Emily (story) (1930) - William Faulkner  (Grade:B+)

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

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

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

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The Dead (1914) - James Joyce  (Grade:B-)

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

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

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A Good Death (essay) (2024) - Neko Case  (Grade:B+)

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The King of the Ferret Leggers (essay) (1983) - Donald R. Katz  (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 Universal Baseball Association, Inc. : J. Henry Waugh, Prop. () - Robert Coover  (Grade:A-)

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

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The Man Who Would Be King (1975) - John Huston  (Grade:A)

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Unbreakable (2000) - M. Night Shyamalan  (Grade:A-)

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Brothers Judd Daily

Brothers Judd QuasiDaily Bookmarks:
10/11/24:

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)

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) was born in Reading, PA on October 2, 1879. His Collected Poems (1954) won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was born in Porbandar, India on October 2, 1869.

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (1924-) was born in Plains, GA on October 1, 1924. He actually wrote one book that I like: An Outdoor Journal : Adventures and Reflections

Jim Thompson (1906-77) was born in Oklahoma on September 27, 1906. Read Orrin's reviews of Roughneck (1954)(Grade: A),The Grifters (1964)(Grade: A), Pop. 1280 (1964)(Grade: A-)

T. S. [Thomas Stearns] Eliot (1888-1965) was born in St. Louis, MO on September 26, 1888. Read Orrin's reviews of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), The Hollow Men (1927) (Grade: B+), and Murder in the Cathedral (1935) (Grade: A-)

William Faulkner (1897-1962) was born in Albany, MS on September 25, 1897. Read Orrin's review of Light in August (1932) (Grade: B-)

Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) was born in Chicago, IL on September 25, 1930. Read Orrin's review ofThe Giving Tree (1964) & Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974)(Shel Silverstein 1930-1999)(Grades: A+ & A-)

John Marshall (1755-1835) was born in Fauquier County, VA on September 24, 1755.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was born in St. Paul, MN on September 24, 1896. Read Orrin's review of The Great Gatsby (1925)(Grade: B)