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Spring Cleaning

The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave

The Lemming Condition by Alan Arkin

Trump and Populism by Michael Kazin

How Do We Look by Mary Beard

Family Life by Russel Banks

Last Train from Perdition by Robert McCammon

The Rule of St Benedict by St Benedict

Theodore Roosevelt by Louis Auchincloss

April 4, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave “A young boy climbs a riverbank.” This tour memoir and more or less book of poetry opens up with the image above of a young boy climbing up a riverbank and feeling like he has a brush with a train passing close by. I was girding myself for the possibility that I had decided to read a book that Nick Cave write after the death of his son in a not impossibly similar situation. That would happen a […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Alan Arkin, Eugene O'Neill, Louis Auchincloss, Mary Beard, Michael Kazin, Nick Cave, Philip K. Dick, Robert McCammon, Russel Banks, St Benedict

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:223 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Alan Arkin, Eugene O'Neill, Louis Auchincloss, Mary Beard, Michael Kazin, Nick Cave, Philip K. Dick, Robert McCammon, Russel Banks, St Benedict ·
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