January 2008
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Winter/Spring Events at the FLP
Here are a few highlights from the calendar:
Chip Kidd: 14 February 7pm*
Judith Jones: 06 March 8pm
Lionel Shriver: 11 March 7pm*
Dave Eggers: 20 March 7pm*
Arlen Specter: 24 March 7pm*
Chinua Achebe: 27 March 8pm
Tobias Wolff: 10 April 8pm
Jhumpa Lahiri: 24 April 8pm
Louise Erdrich: 29 April 8pm
Michael Ondaatje: 06 May*
Simon Winchester: 08 May*
*FREE
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Just because I am a woman
While I should be very excited about this year’s presidential election, I am, unfortunately, somewhat disappointed in the playing field. For weeks I have been upset - no, angry - at some of the rhetoric that seeped into the campaign. I am not naive to think that this election could somehow transcend politics as usual. However, after seven long years of the current administration, I am tired...
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Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner
Soldiers’ Pay is my start to what I am calling my “Winter of Faulkner” (although at the rate I’m going it may lead to the Spring and Summer of Faulkner). Soldiers’ Pay is Faulkner’s first novel (written in 1926) and it is obvious that this is a young work. The characters are young and naive (despite surviving World War I) and their perspective on the world...
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What I was unable to articulate after the...
Lawrence Lessig writes about the heated Democratic debate last Monday night:
Watching the debate last night, I wondered what happens when we become as bad as they. (WE=Dems; THEY=Karl Rove GOP). For there was a cheapness and dishonesty in the exchange last night that I haven’t quite recognized before. Why I hadn’t registered this before is an obvious question — for of course,...
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Happy New Year
…albeit a bit belated. I’ve taken a needed and unplanned hiatus from writing although not so much from reading. There’s lots of exciting changes happening here at twoumbrellas (but more on that later) and it’s an election year - a hopeful one, too (but more on that later, too).
As for 2008, I think I’m a bit ambitious in my reading goals - I’m hesitant to...