This otherwise rational person was telling me the mountain cabin owned by my family for generations was no longer a viable vacation rental unit because it was haunted.
It is a career well recounted by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. More than a biography, Glaude uses Baldwin’s life and writings to examine the racial injustices that continue to plague us.
I was at this local wine-tasting thing in my small community of the Key Peninsula the other day when the subject of politics came up. Seems to happen whenever...
They all had stories. It seemed to me, even as a kid, their stories helped them contain something they couldn’t or wouldn’t dare let loose. But there was this one guy whose story got away from him, and he could never get it back.
The General was a career soldier of an Eastern Bloc army, involuntarily hosting a sample of the enemy he had spent his professional life training to fight. I felt for him.
“I was reading all this stuff and I just thought, these are the best scenes ever written for an actor. I knew all these out-of-work actors, these ACT alums, and we’re all sitting around waiting for the next great play to land in our laps so that we can get our health insurance, and I thought, why aren’t we doing literature on stage?
One of us heard something about Ernest Hemingway hating Ivan Turgenev, and we both worshipped Hemingway so we thought we should read Turgenev and learn to hate him too. Then we picked up "Fathers and Sons."
My dad discharged his weapon in action only once, while serving guard duty on a train to Sasebo transporting Korean men conscripted by the Japanese Imperial Army for hard labor during the war.
"I was talking to the neighbor, and we could hear a rocket whistle. When you hear the whistles, then at least you know it’s going somewhere else, not right on top of you. It hit the block behind us.”