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TheTuber (essay) (2009) - Wells Tower  (Grade:A)
Theo of Golden (2023) - Allen Levi  (Grade:A+)
The Interrogative Mood: a Novel? (2009) - Padgett Powell  (Grade:B+)
Whalefall: A Novel (2023) - Daniel Kraus  (Grade:C)
2BR02B (short story) (1962) - Kurt Vonnegut  (Grade:A-)
The Unquiet Sleep (1962) - William Haggard  (Grade:B+)
The Ballad of Mulan (6th Century) - Unknown Unknown  (Grade:A)
The Wind in the Willows (1908) - Kenneth Grahame  (Grade:A+)
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2018) - Patrick Raden Keefe  (Grade:A-)
Come Back Dead (1997) - Terence Faherty  (Grade:B+)
The Hawaiian Cult that raised Tulsi Gabbard (with Christine Gralow) [Podcast] (2026) - Christine Gralow  (Grade:B)
Pay-Off in Blood (1962) - Brett Halliday  (Grade:B)
The Odyssey (2017) - Emily Wilson  (Grade:A+)
A Political Philosophy of Conservatism: Prudence, Moderation and Tradition (Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition) (2021) - Ferenc Horcher  (Grade:A-)
One Day—and One Night—in Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen (essay) (2000) - Anthony Bourdain  (Grade:B+)
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1997) - Pauline Maier  (Grade:B+)
Hiroshima (1946) - John Hersey  (Grade:B)
MOVIE REVIEWS:


Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) - Steven Spielberg  (Grade:C-)
BEST CONSERVATIVE FILMS:
Andrei Rublev (1966) - Andrei Tarkovsky  (Grade:A)
Strictly Ballroom (1992) - Baz Luhrmann  (Grade:A+)
It Happens Every Spring (1949) - Lloyd Bacon  (Grade:B)
A Man Escaped (or The Wind Bloweth Where it Listeth) [Un condamnéà mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle oùil veut] (1956) - Robert Bresson  (Grade:A+)
The Apostle (1997) - Robert Duvall  (Grade:A)

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Compass marker 09/13/26:


General John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing (1860-1948) was born in Linn County, MN on September 13, 1860.


Bill Monroe (1911-96) was born in Rosine, KY on September 13, 1911. He created the music genre that is named for his band The Blue Grass Boys. Brothers Judd recommends The Music Of Bill Monroe 1936-1994


Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was born in Camden, OH on September 13, 1876. Read Orrin's review of Winesburg, Ohio (1919)(Grade: C-)


Roald Dahl (1916-90) was born in Llandaff, Wales on September 13, 1916. He is best known for his children's books; read Orrin's review of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)(Grade: A)


Claudette Colbert (1903-1996) was born in Paris, FR on September 13, 1903. Brothers Judd recommends her appearance Frank Capra's classic It Happened One Night (1934).


David Herbert "DH" Lawrence (1885-1930) was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, ENG on September 11, 1885. He did as much damage to Anglo-American Literature as anyone this side of Joyce, Freud and Darwin. Read Orrin's review of Sons and Lovers (1913)(Grade: D).


O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862-1910) was born in Greensboro, NC on September 11, 1862. Read Orrin's review of The Gift of the Magi (Grade: A+)


Stephen Jay Gould was born in New York, NY on September 10, 1941. Read Orrin's review of The Mismeasure of Man (1981)


James Hilton (1900-1954) was born in Lancashire, ENG on September 9, 1900. Read Orrin's review of Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (1934)(Grade: A+) and Lost Horizon (1933)(Grade: A)


Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born in Tula Province, Russia on September 9, 1828. Read his Confession online.


William Bligh (1754-1817) was born on September 9, 1754. See Orrin's review of Mr. Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power, and Theatre on the Bounty (1992)(Greg Dening) (Grade: A-)


Otis Redding (1941-67) was born in Dawson, GA on September 9, 1941. Brothers Judd recommends Dreams To Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology


The great adventurer and travel writer, Richard Halliburton (1900-39), was born in Memphis, TN on January 9, 1900. We particularly recommend his book, The Glorious Adventure (1927), in which he recreated the travels of Ulysses. I read it twenty years ago and still recall how exciting it was when he swam the Hellespont.

Ann Beattie (1947-) was born in Washington, D.C., on September 8, 1947. Read Orrin's review of Love Always (1985)(Grade: A)


Sid Caesar (1922-) was born in Yonkers, NY on September 8, 1922. Brothers Judd recommends his fine autobiography, Where Have I Been?


Jimmie Rodgers "The Singing Brakeman" (1897-1933) was born in Meridian, MS on September 8, 1897. Brothers Judd recommends The Essential Jimmie Rodgers.


Marilyn Durham (1930-) was born in Evansville, IN on September 8, 1930. Read Orrin's review of The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1972) (Marilyn Durham 1930-) (Grade: B+)


Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828-1914) was born on September 8, 1828. He was perhaps the greatest non-professional soldier in U.S. history, he won the Congressional Medal of Honor at the Battle of Gettysburg. Read Orrin's review of The Killer Angels (1974)(Michael Shaara) (Grade: A+)


Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was born in Greenwich, ENG on September 7, 1533. Daughter of Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn, she ruled from 1558 to 1603.


Grandma "Anna Maria" Moses (1860-1961) was born in Greenwich, NY on September 7, 1860.




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