TAMPA - Lula Mae Tollaman spent 46 years, or maybe it was 48, in the bathroom at the Columbia Restaurant. Whether you trust old records or her own long memory, it was a long time.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Wenatchee: A True Story by Dorothy Rabinowitz
WENATCHEE, Wash.--The last time Pastor Robert Roberson and his wife, Connie, saw their 4-and-a-half-year-old daughter was on March 28. That day, the Robersons joined the ever increasing number of Wenatchee citizens arrested, over the past year, on grounds of child sex abuse.
A Reader's Manifesto by B.R. Myers
Nothing gives me the feeling of having been born several decades too late quite like the modern "literary" best seller. Give me a time-tested masterpiece or what critics patronizingly call a fun read—Sister Carrie or just plain Carrie. Give me anything, in fact, as long as it doesn't have a recent prize jury's seal of approval on the front and a clutch of precious raves on the back. In the bookstore I'll sometimes sample what all the fuss is about, but one glance at the affected prose—"furious dabs of tulips stuttering," say, or "in the dark before the day yet was"—and I'm hightailing it to the friendly black spines of the Penguin Classics.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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