Jon Ford

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30 Apr

This Queens Reads!

I recently returned from a trip to London so I am currently all things Anglophile. While I was there I had opportunity to see a play by playwright, novelist, memoirist…

10 Feb

Wham! Pow!

I recently read, or I should say reread, Michael Chabon’s 2000 Pulitizer Prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavelier and Clay.   Being a lover of both literature and comic…

18 Sep

Reviewing The Situation

So I recently finished Charles Dickens’s second novel, Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress which would seem to justly deserve its subtitle.  I first became aware of Dickens’s story…

04 Sep

A Bit of Gore

Gore Vidal may have died last July, but he left behind a body of work that continues to speak volumes, both politically and ethically (if you can really separate the…

27 Aug

I Wish!

I’ve been tied up with moving and getting myself resettled back in New York City for the last few weeks, so I’ve neglected not only my writing, but my blogging. …

03 Aug

Overacheiver

The other night, a kind friend of mine was good enough to invite me over for a screening of the The Swimmer, the 1968 film adaptation of John Cheever’s short…

27 Jul

Crime and Punishment; or Oh Canada!

So, at this point you may be asking yourself, “Doesn’t this guy ever read anything new?”  And the answer is yes, I occasionally do.  Last Christmas I read Stephen King’s…

23 Jul

Murder Most Foul!

So after watching something of a murder mystery in The Singing Detective, I thought I might put what I was reading aside for a bit and pick up a real…

19 Jul

Book Therapy

So, I’ve been reading two books recently, Oliver Twist and Richard Ford’s new novel Canada (I seem to have a thing about children who are forced to parent themselves), but…

13 Jul

Reading – The New/Old Social Media

I recently discovered Levi Asher’s Literary Kicks blog and read his piece “Why Reading Is Always Social.” It surprises me that this is even an argument, as reading seems to…

10 Jul

A Mythical Place

I spent part of this afternoon reading the first few chapters of Lower East Side Memories:  A Jewish Place in America by Hasia R. Diner a professor of American Jewish…

08 Jul

Sisters

Today I read a terrific graphic novel Unterzakhn written and illustrated by Leela Corman (usually I refer to the ones I read as comic books, but this is truly a…

05 Jul

Imaginary Friends

In every obituary, article or essay that I read about Nora Ephron last week, many of her closest friends and associates spoke highly of her as a writer, director and…

04 Jul

One Night in Alexandria

There’s an interesting opinion piece by Daniel Mendelsohn in today’s NY Times:  A Closet by Another Name.  I bring this up because (and I only found this out today) Mendelsohn…

02 Jul

Wait Til The Kids Get That Home!

The one thing I don’t like about reading the NY Times online is that I tend to miss a lot of articles I might have perused in the paper edition…

01 Jul

A Couple of Lovers

I started reading The Lover by Marguerite Duras today.  I’m only about halfway through (I’m on page 69!) so I don’t really have much to say (yet), but I did…

29 Jun

Paul Scott

So a little more today about The Jewel in the Crown and Paul Scott.  It’s the first part of Scott’s tetralogy (look it up) The Raj Quartet, set in India…

28 Jun

Pictures from the Past

Today I’ve been looking through Deborah Hopkinson’s Shutting Out the Sky:  Life in the Tenements of New York: 1880-1924.  It’s a terrific book which traces the early lives of five…

28 Jun

Domination and Submission

Welcome to my page.  I’ll be posting about my writing and my reading.  Hopefully in that order.  I’m currently reading The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott and the…

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