Featured Reviews

Of Liberty (essay) (1668) - Abraham Cowley  (Grade:A)

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In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (1937) - Delmore Schwartz  (Grade:D)

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The Possession (2002) - Annie Ernaux  (Grade:D-)

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Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934) - William Saroyan  (Grade:A+)

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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (1985) - Cormac McCarthy  (Grade:B)

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Baseball (Poem) (1978) - Gail Mazur  (Grade:A+)

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A Bush League Hero (story) (1911 (?)) - Edna Ferber  (Grade:A+)

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The Order of the Day (2017) - Eric Vuillard  (Grade:B)

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Cathedral (1981) - Raymond Carver  (Grade:A)

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The Swimmer (1964) - John Cheever  (Grade:B-)

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Train (2012) - Alice Munro  (Grade:A)

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Black Betty (1994) - Walter Mosley  (Grade:A-)

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The Footbridge (2021) - Daniel Rattelle  (Grade:A+)

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Indemnity Only (1982) - Sara Paretsky  (Grade:B-)

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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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MOVIE REVIEWS:

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

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Metropolitian (1990) - Whit Stillman  (Grade:A+)

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Brothers Judd Daily

Brothers Judd QuasiDaily Bookmarks:
07/26/24:

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)  was born in Surrey, England on July 26, 1894.   Read Orrin's review of  Brave New World  (1932)(Grade: A)

Stanley Kubrick  (1928-1999) was born in the Bronx, NY on July 26, 1928.  Brothers Judd  recommends checking out his earlier movies The Killing (1956), Paths of Glory (1957) and Spartacus (1960)

Jean Shepherd (1929-99)  was born in Hammond, IN on July 26, 1929.   Read Orrin's review of  In God We Trust : All Others Pay Cash  (1966) (Grade: A)

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Dubline, IRE on July 26, 1856.  Read Orrin's review of  Pygmalion (1912)

Eric Hoffer (1902-83) was born in New York, NY on July 25, 1902. Read Orrin's review of The True Believer : Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (1951)

Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was born on July 25, 1844. One of America's greatest artists, he is famous for his paintings of atheletes.

The Three Musketeers (1844) (Alexandre Dumas 1802-1870) Alexandre Dumas (pere) (1802-1870) was born in Villers-Cotterêts,Aisne, France on July 24, 1802.

Lynda Carter (1951-) was born in Phoenix, AZ on July 24, 1951. Boys our age experienced many a restless evening thanks to her star-spangled bustier and golden lasso on Wonder Woman.

Robert Graves (1895-1985) was born in London on July 24, 1895. Read Orrin's reviews of I, Claudius (1934) (Grade: A+) and Sergeant Lamb's America (1940) (Grade: B+)

John D. MacDonald (1916-1986) was born in Sharon, PA on July 24, 1916. Read Orrin's review of Nightmare in Pink (1964) (Grade: C+)

Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was born in Aberdeen, Scotland on July 24, 1874. Read Orrin's review of My Utmost for His Highest (1927)

Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was born in Chicago, IL on July 23, 1888. Read Orrin's review of The Big Sleep (1939) (Grade: A+)

Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943) was born in Bethlehem, PA on July 22, 1898.

Bob Dole (1923-) was born in Russell, KS on July 22, 1923. Read Richard Ben Cramer's classic account of the men who sought the 1988 Presidential nominations, What It Takes: The Way to the White House.

Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) was born in New York, NY on July 22, 1849. Her famous poem The New Colossus appears on the base of the Statue of Liberty.

Edward Hopper ( 1882-1967) was born in Nyack, NY on July 22, 1882. In paintings like Nighthawks at the Diner, he eloquently portrayed the increasingly atomized Modern world.

Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) was born in the village of Oak Park, IL on July 21, 1899. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 and the citation specifically mentioned The Old Man and the Sea (1952), read Orrin's review (Grade: A+)

John Gardner (1933-82) was born in Batavia, NY on July 21, 1933. Read Orrin's review of Grendel (1971)

Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstong became the first man to walk on the Moon when he debarked from the LEM set foot in Mare Tranquillitatis on July 20, 1969.

Cormac McCarthy (1933-) was born in Providence, Rhode Island on July 20, 1933. Read Orrin's review of All the Pretty Horses (1992) (Grade: A+)