Small Business Saturday

Auggie's Revenge and Fight for Your Long Day are available at your local independent bookstore. Thank you and have a nice holiday season!

Among other things in 2018. . .

I'm thankful for five-star ratings of Fight for Your Long Day from people I've never met.

Brian Alan Ellis on the JDO Show

Over at the JDO Show, Brian Alan Ellis recognizes that Philly isn't quite for him while host J. David Osborne sentences Brett Kavanaugh to crimes against porcelain. Good stuff; check it out.

My Father

According to Bukowski's "My Father," the poet never voted, but I have no information on how often his many imitators have gone to the polls.

December 25, 1942

"What has the Socialism of intellectuals ever to do with the people? Think of Edmund Wilson's socialism so humanist, meditative, and the rest--but it is as self-consciously personal as Flaubert's hatred of socialism; both artists merely talk about their particular vision of the world and their horror of it."

~~ from Alfred Kazin's Journals, entry from December 25, 1942

September 9, 1942

"They are killing us off in Europe; they are killing us off by the thousands from the Rhine to the Volga. The blood of the Jews is like the vapor in air that Faustus saw when the Devil claimed his due; but no one claims us but death; our due is, apparently, the 'sympathy' of a few men of good will. From this morning's Times, however, I learn that French Catholic priests have been fighting Vichy's submission to the Nazi Jewish policy. Saliege, the Archbishop of Toulouse, has written this pastoral letter: 'There is a Christian morality, there is a human morality, that impose duties and confer rights. These duties and these rights derive from the very nature of man."

~~ from Alfred Kazin's Journals, entry from September 9, 1942