Gerald Howard

Hoo boy. Remember how well it all worked out when we armed the Afghani people who became the Taliban to give the occupying Russians fits? What could possibly go wrong?

So, boots on the table? A new phrase enters the lexicon of lying.

"The American writer . . . has his hands full in trying to understand, describe, and then make credible much of American reality. It stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates, and finally it is even a kind of embarrassment to one's meager imagination."- Philip Roth, "Writing American Fiction," 1963

This was the first book I ever took out of the Brooklyn Public Library on my "adult" library card. Hey, cavemen, looks cool!
It was . . . challenging for a 14-year-old, but I finished it and, hmmm, that gave me something to think about.

How I arrived on Bluesky.

1) Thank you! 2) Do not delay?

I spent forty-plus years at the book editing dodge, and I can tell you that I never -- and I mean NEVER -- asked my authors to rustle up quotes. That was my job and it would have been demeaning to make them do it. Only in certain cases would they do it themselves.

Jerry Lewis

This will be on the final exam.

In my view the best sci-fi film (after 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY) ever made, although the original THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD gives it a run. A very smart update on THE TEMPEST -- Robby the Robot standing in for Caliban and Dr. Morbius for Prospero.

OOPSIE!

How nice to see a little happiness in the midst of all this -- well, pick your description.

Reading this from Grenada! Even people not born then "remember" this vividily here.

Thank you for writing this. I was a book editor for more than four decades and I knew Ann a bit and admired her more than a bit. It was and is a grand profession and, in my view, the care of writers and their work is at the very heart of it.

You could say that the United States is committing slow-motion suicide, but really, it isn't all that slow now. We have very little time -- Congress, nb. -- to come to our senses.

You could say that the United States is comitting slow-motion suicide, but really, it isn't all that slow now. We have very little time -- Congress, nb. -- to come to our senses.

Haven't had kidneys since, oh, 1967. My mother used to cook them with lamp chops and bacon, probably an Irish Catholic thing. "Inner organs of beasts and fowls" making a comeback! The Leopold Bloom Diet!

My wife and I had maybe our third meal together there in late 1982.

The brilliance that was Workman. Now destroyed under its new owner Hachette, of course.

This is going to keep happening, I am sorry to say.

Looks like someone who doesn't have a lot to lose, which is the way he writes as well, for better or worse.

Ann Godoff, a Top Editor and Publisher of Best Sellers, Dies at 76

A giant.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/b...

Talk about a question that answers itself!

Good lord, what's next, kinder gentler Visigoths, Vandals and Huns? Genghis Khan, civilizing influence?

If you'll expand this strategy to writing in all forms and modes, I'll sign on!

I've known her for many years and I myself benefited last year from the great imprint she created when Penguin Press published my own book. Such a huge loss to publishing and literary culture.

My parents, Brooklyn natives (as I am) loved this book and this movie equally. They always told me that "This was the way things were."

Sorry to hear that.