Author: D. A. Hosek
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Beautiful Sentences: J. Robert Lennon
Stories exist to make sense of life. J. Robert Lennon, Familiar.
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Dewey Decimal Project: 306.235 FLA Girl Land
As the father of a young daughter and a member of a family which went 59 years without a female birth before my daughter’s birth, girls are a bit of a mystery to me. No sisters, no nieces, and only a single female cousin who was over a decade older than me so I knew…
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Beautiful Sentences: Denis Johnson
Looking at her I thought of going out in the fields with my wife back when we were so in love we didn’t know what it was. Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son.
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Dewey Decimal Project 291.9 ZEI Cults
There are a few places where the Dewey Decimal System betrays its Victorian origins. The 200s are one of these. 220–289 are dedicated to Christianity and the Bible. All other religions are given 290–299. So faced with the full panoply of world religions outside of Christianity, I ended up choosing this slender book on cults aimed…
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Beautiful sentences: David Bezmogis
Though he did not want to desecrate his grief, Alec nonetheless said, I just buried my father, I’d like to come up. David Bezmogis, The Free World.
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Dewey Decimal Project: 282.092 MAN Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and their Son
All it really took to hook me on the book was the title. A priest and a nun get married and have kids? Right up my alley. Where the big surprise came in (and perhaps it shouldn’t have been a surprise), was the fact that the Boston priest sexual abuse scandal came into play in…
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Beautiful sentences: Terese Svoboda
At least we have our own cell to settle in. At least the baby doesn’t die of the shot the way he could have, with all the cell fleas and a flesh wound and no mother. He is used to Sharon more anyway is what I suppose, what with the mother no doubt seeping milk…
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Beautiful Sentences: Lillian S. Robinson
But ours is a movement that is only half certain where it is marching, and poetry is more often relegated to the “cultural events,” the entertainment segment of feminist conferences, rallies, and meetings, the thing we drop into when the real political work is over. It needs to be more than that, and I am…
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Salinger Revisited: Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes
This is perhaps the oddest story in the collection. The other stories in the collection tend to follow a certain pattern but this one does not. We have a somewhat mysterious scenario with a man with a young woman apparently in his apartment for a romantic adventure which is interrupted by a phone call from…