I highly recommend a 1949 film entitled My Foolish Heart, currently available for free on Amazon Prime. Despite the title, you can stop rolling your eyes. The only authorized film adaptation of anything written by J.D. Salinger, it may not be perfect, but his authenticity made the unique cultural and situational pressures experienced by women and men during World War II real for me in a way that nothing else ever has. Moments of deeply intelligent exploration of the human condition abound. Though the film stars Susan Hayward and Dana Andrews, Robert Keith, who plays Susan Hayward’s father in the film, steals the show with his deft combination of serious passion and gentle humor.
Craig Healing Springs (this excerpt from my memoirs is about aging)
See if you agree with the editor who, though he published other work of mine in the New York Times, rejected this piece. (Written long ago, it’s now part of Craig Healing Springs, the title I’ve given my memoirs.) THE GOLDEN YEARS When I moved to Long Island the first…
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Genetic God
Recently I had the great pleasure of meeting author Matthew Alper, who describes a fascinating book of his below: It is not a coincidence that all humans have a nose in the middle of their face or that all cats have whiskers or that all Monarch butterflies have the exact…
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Barnett Berger: A Rare Soul
In a community of Brooklyn writers, it is perhaps fitting that Barnett Berger was first met on a bus route, the No. 71, which no longer exists. He was carrying an old book that likely shares the same fate. He explained that he spoke slowly because he’d suffered a stroke. …
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Follow the Flavor
Guest Post by Sondra Fink I love food. I love that vegetables need vinegar or lemon to break down their cell walls so your body can absorb their nutrients. They need whole fats too – your vegetable’s nutrients are fat-soluble. Fats carry those nutrients to your cells so your body…
Read MoreCheck out my newly released sci fi novella, Rococo!
ROCOCO: A sci fi novella I had a lot of fun writing! Even the two years I spent researching our future as predicted by a truly diverse collection of people…but including those paid the big bucks to make accurate calls in such matters for major corporations. Personally, I love this…
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