Review No. 198: BMB Bakery 812 Chestnut Street (630) 544-8204 The SituationHe Said: We were out and about at lunchtime, and She Said told me there was a new sourdough sandwich place in town that we hadn’t reviewed yet, so I said “Let’s go there,” and so we did. They’re open Wednesday through Saturday from 8:30… Continue reading BMB Bakery
Author: Jay Ruud
Jay Ruud
CURRICULUM VITAE (Retired) Chair, Department of English University of Central Arkansas Conway, AR 72035 Address: 1510 Freyaldenhoven Lane, Conway AR 72032 Phone: (501) 472-8549 e-mail: jruud@uca.edu EDUCATION FULL-TIME TEACHING EXPERIENCE ADMINISTRATIVE AND RELATED EXPERIENCE ADMINISTRATIVE TRAINING COURSES TAUGHT At UCA (2003-2016): At NSU (1985-2003): SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Scholarly Books Novels Short Stories Conference Proceedings Journal Articles or Sections of Books Reference… Continue reading Jay Ruud
Margaret Atwood’s “Variation on the Word Sleep”
Peter Pereira’s “Anagrammer”
John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 7: “At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners Blow”
Billy Collins’ “Boy Shooting at Statue”
Anthony Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land”
Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land, his 2021 follow-up to his 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning All the Light We Cannot See, is a spectacularly wide-ranging novel that alternates between contemporary thriller, historical novel, and speculative science fiction, that takes readers from fifteenth-century Constantinople to twentieth- and then twenty-first century America and then to a twenty-second century generational… Continue reading Anthony Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land”
Rogue Roundabout
Review No. 197: The Rogue Roundabout 804 Chestnut Street (No phone number listed) The SituationHe Said: So, 20 years ago who would have predicted that bone-dry Faulkner County would have a microbrewery-restaurant in Downtown Conway? Yet, here it is. In a 5,500 square-foot building that, if memory serves, used to be a payday check-cashing place on… Continue reading Rogue Roundabout
