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“Searching for Cassady,” an illustrated children’s book, can be found on Amazon.com
More book grief! Paul Auster’s “Sunset Park†grabbed me from its first sentence. “For almost a year now, he has been taking photographs of abandoned things.†He is Miles Heller, an Ivy League drop-out working foreclosures in Florida, inspecting abandoned homes for banks. He finds himself cataloguing, via photographs, the things people have left behind:
(...)My eldest son and I have an ongoing discussion about “The Shelf,†an imaginary but distinctive resting place for the best war literature. He referred to it after I finished Karl Marlantes “Mattherhorn,†a 640 page slog — in the best sense of the word — through the Vietnam War. (We agree to disagree on
(...)Can a book bring you solace? Zachary Mason’s “The Lost Books of the Odyssey†was a comfort to me. Everything about this slender tome — its tone, its elegant paper cover — soothed me during a physically trying time earlier this year. It’s small and slender, even in hardback, so I could easily carry it
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