Featured Reviews

Haunting Olivia (story) (2005) - Karen Russell  (Grade:A+)

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The First Christmas Tree (1897) - Henry Jackson van Dyke  (Grade:B)

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Michael Oakeshott on the Human Condition: Essays (2024) - Timothy Fuller  (Grade:A-)

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Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau (poem) (1794?) - William Blake  (Grade:A)

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The Paperhanger (story) (2000) - William Gay  (Grade:C)

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The Ledge (story) (1959) - Lawrence Sargent Hall  (Grade:A)

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The Nine Mile Walk (story) (1947) - Harry Kemelman  (Grade:A-)

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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas: Variations on a theme by William James (story) (1973) - Ursula K. Le Guin  (Grade:B+)

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To a Passer-by (poem) (1855) - Charles Baudelaire  (Grade:B+)

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

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

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Gravity (2013) - Alfonso Cuarón  (Grade:A+)

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

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Brothers Judd Daily

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Willa Cather (1873-1947) was born near Winchester, VA on December 7, 1873. Read Orrin's review of Death Comes to the Archbishop (1927)(Grade: C)

Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) was born in Gustafs, Sweden on December 6, 1898.

Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) was born in New Brunswick, NJ on December 6, 1886. Best remembered for his poem Trees, it seems likely that he is the only poet memorialized by having a Turnpike Rest Area named in his honor.

Walt Disney (1901-66) was born in Chicago, IL on December 5, 1901. Griffin Judd particularly recommends Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

Calvin Trillin (1935-) was born in Kansas City, MO on December 5, 1935. Brothers Judd recommends his very funny Tummy Trilogy.

Martin Van Buren (1782?1862) was born in Kinderhook, NY on December 5, 1782. He was the first non-Adams not to be reelected President.

George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) was born in New Rumley, OH on December 5, 1839. Read Orrin's review of The Fatal Environment : The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890 (1985)(Richard Slotkin) (Grade: B-)

Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was born in Nottinghamshire, ENG on December 4, 1835. Read Orrin's review of The Way of All Flesh (1903)

Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague on December 4, 1875. The Brothers Judd recommend Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910) (Rainer Maria Rilke 1875-1926)(translated by Stephen Mitchell)

Joseph (Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) Conrad (1857-1924) was born in Berdichev, Poland (now Ukraine) on December 3, 1857. Read Orrin's reviews of Lord Jim (1900)(Grade: B), Heart of Darkness (1902)(Grade: A), & The Secret Agent (1920)(Grade: B)

Nikos Kazantzakis (1885-1957) was born in Iraklion, Crete on December 2, 1885. Read Orrin's review of The Last Temptation of Christ (1960)(Grade: C+)

Rex Stout (1896-1975) was born in Noblesville, IN on December 1, 1896 Read Orrin's review of Fer-de-Lance: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (1934)(Grade: A)

Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) was born in Florida, MO on November 30, 1835. Read Orrin's review of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) (Grade: A-)

Jacques Barzun (1907-) was born on November 30, 1907. Read Orrin's review of The Culture We Deserve (1989)(Grade : A)

Michael Beschloss (1955-) was born in Chicago, IL on November 30, 1955. Read Orrin's review of Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair (1986)(Grade: A)

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) was born in Belfast, Ireland on November 29, 1898. Read Orrin's review of The Screwtape Letters (1943) (Grade: A+)

Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time (1962) and Two-Part Invention : The Story of a Marriage (1988), was born November 29, 1918 in New York, N.Y.

William Blake, born in London (1757)

James Agee (1909-55) was born in Knoxville, TN on November 27, 1909. Read Orrin's review of A Death in the Family (1957)(Grade: C)

Bruce Lee (Lee Yuen Kam)(1940-73) was born in San Francisco, CA on November 27, 1940. Brothers Judd recommends the excellent biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)