November 13, 2008 Salman Rushdie's classic book, Perfection On The Pages!November 8, 2008 I just completed "America, America" by Ethan Canin. Bump elbows with him here:
It left me stunned and gasping for more.
I was of the same generation (62) and traveled the almost same pathways (only mine included a little interlude with excessive alcohol and drugs mixed in with the activism).
You and my Mstrace can reduce me to a sobbing wreck or a hellbent hellcat or a quivering pool of melty butter, I never know which. And that's why I love you, hunnybuny!
You called me (blush, blush). . . young lady. Well, I think that Arts and Culture programs are of supreme importance to this country's greatest resource -- our children.