I went to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for a few days right after the November election in 2004. I went to hear Pat Smith at the Zimmerman Library of the University of New Mexico (UNM) do American Indian storytelling. Pat along with her husband John Crawford, my publisher, were my hosts. Pat is part Micmac (Indians who lived in New Brunswick, Canada, and in Maine) as well as part French ...
At first Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children seems a satiric novel about three old friends--Julius, Marina, and Daniella- from Ivy League college who at thirty strive for scintilating New York intellectual careers but deal with various career and romantic fiascos. Julius is prone to comparing his current feelings to his male lover to either Pierre and Natasha from Tolstoy's War and Peace. ...
Leslie Evans' recently released memoir Outsider's Reverie: A Memoir (Boryana Books) is a fascinating look at how American radicals in the post World War II generation and also a wonderful Los Angeles memoir.The first seven chapter wonderfully captures Los Angeles and the 1950s and early 1960s youth counterculture there. Evans describes his feelings of being a teen outsider stemming from ...
