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March 2006

Perilous Memories

Sunday, March 26, 2006

The bugle, whenever I have heard it since, has always seemed to me the very golden throat of boyhood.
-- Willa Cather, "The Namesake"

Perilous memories in Ring Lardner's "Liberty Hall," read by Christina Pickles and Willa Cather's "The Namesake," read by John Shea.


Lost and Found

Sunday, March 19, 2006

"He went home to his tiny room, and thought about the word, 'lonely,' and how it sounded and looked so —lonely."
Aimee Bender, "Loser"

Find what was lost.


Living Between Two Worlds

Sunday, March 12, 2006

"He followed her into the living room, where she gestured to the piano. He had never seen one up close before. It was smaller than he thought it would be, and blacker. All of a sudden, he was frightened."

—Alix Ohlin, "Simple Exercises for the Beginning Student."


Men

Sunday, March 05, 2006

"The girls love Safety Man. Megan is ten and Molly is eight, and they have decided that Safety Man is handsome. They have been involved in dressing him—their father’s old leather jacket and sunglasses and a baseball cap turned backward. They are pleased to be protected by a life-sized simulated male guardian."
—Dan Chaon, "Safety Man."

Men: baffled, real, and ideal.