Elephants, Wallflowers and the End of the World

In the past few weeks I have read “The Perks of being a Wallflower,” by Stephen Chbosky,  “Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World,” by Haruki Murakami and “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen.  As I have mentioned before, I am not very comfortable offering any kind of critical review of authors that are [...]

The County Fair

I was listening to the Bob Edwards (radio) show yesterday on the way home from work.  He has an hour long interview program on XM’s pseudo NPR channel (channel 133).  Bob Edwards lends credibility to the NPR concept on XM because he was the voice of NPR’s Morning Edition or All Things Considered for almost [...]