Showing posts with label Jill Lepore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jill Lepore. Show all posts

Sunday, October 4, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 $23 and $24 wins !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read her essays in the New Yorker and am still reading These Truths. Great writer and her stuff makes you think. That's all I require.

Sunday, January 12, 2020

January 12, 2020



Good yarn, liked it but ending was too pat.



An incredible read. History as it wasn't taught in the classes I had.



Ludwig van turns 250 this year,will listen to the symphonies.

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Fevruary 6, 2018



Jill Lepore's It's Still Alive celebrating 200 years of Frankenstein in this week's The New Yorker is terrific. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley is fascinating, as was her life.

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

June 29, 2016



Brexit on the cover of the latest The New Yorker. Also, great article about the the crazy history of nominating Conventions: "Mencken said that going to a Convention was something between attending a revival and watching a hanging."