Damages (season one) Todd and Glenn Kessler with Daniel Zellman (2007) Facts for You: Where to Watch: Originally on FX, now streaming on Hulu Length: Thirteen 1-hour episodes in the first season Names You Might Know: Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Ted Danson, Željko Ivanek Language: English He Said: If you were disappointed last month to see Glenn Close fail once… Continue reading Damages (season one)
Simon Armitage’s “The Patriarchs: An Elegy”
Under the Net
Under the Net Iris Murdoch (1954) I’m definitely late to the party as an admirer of Iris Murdoch. I’d heard the name but her novels were always a bit off the radar for me and for what I was reading and studying at the time. But in my late-life mania to read important things that… Continue reading Under the Net
Brooks Haxton’s “If I May”
Klara and the Sun
Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro (2021) One of my wife’s signature maxims is the uncomfortable truth that “You can never know if somebody loves you. You can only know if you feel loved.” This encapsulates succinctly the exasperating gulf between the unique and independent consciousness trapped within one physical body and that other “ghost… Continue reading Klara and the Sun
Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” part I.
Stargazer
Stargazer Anne Hillerman (2021) This latest novel in the venerable Leaphorn-Chee-Manuelito mystery series came out on April 13, 2021, and if you’re a fan of the series, you need to get hold of this one—and if you’re not, why not? Tony Hillerman was an award-winning author of the first 18 novels in this series that… Continue reading Stargazer
Kay Ryan’s “Blandeur”
Top Ten Films of 2020
He Said/She Said Top Ten Films of 2020 In the wake of the 93rd Academy Award ceremony, my awesome wife Stacey Margaret Jones and I put together our own list of what we considered the best films of 2020. After coming up with two separate lists, we combined them to come up with a consensus on… Continue reading Top Ten Films of 2020
