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April 2007
Cycles of life
Sunday, April 29, 2007
"When it was very hot during the day, we would find lions lying asleep. They were the color of the grass, and we didn’t see them at first... I wanted to lie down like the lions."
--Nadine Gordimer, “The Ultimate Safari”
Life journeys take one women back to her childhood, and follows a family through war and loss to new lives.
War stories
Sunday, April 22, 2007
"I think Lincoln’s face created the 20th century."
—Allan Gurganus, "The Ramada Inn at Shiloh."
War stories, personal and historical, reflect the difficult present in one country, and the conflicted past in another.
What do Women Want?
Sunday, April 15, 2007
"Courting a wife takes ten-fold the strength of winning any…girl.”
—John Updike, “Wife Wooing.”
Intriguing tales—and tails—involving strong women.
Unlikely visions
Sunday, April 08, 2007
“The first time I saw the night bookmobile, I was walking down Ravenswood Avenue at 4 o’clock in the morning…The sky was the terrible Chicago orange/purple color at that quiet time of the morning, when the cicadas have given up, but the birds haven’t started in yet.”
—Audrey Niffenegger, “The Night Bookmobile.”
A book lover’s fantasy, an epiphany, and a radio love poem.
Cycles of Life
Sunday, April 01, 2007
”…”In my next life, I want to accept things as they are, and when people ask, “Why?”, I want to say, “What do you mean, why?” And when everyone comes back for Homecoming, I want to be already home.”
--Elizabeth Crane, “Football” .
Cycles of life—past, present, future, and imagined.
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