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Posted in Literature on May 12th, 2010
I have stories to kill for
Here’s an excerpt from an unpublished novel, Amazon Fever:
Olivia sat up in the water. “In apartheid South Africa, I would have been consigned to Soweto. In pre-Civil War America, I would have been a slave – a house slave, but a slave nonetheless. So I am black.”
Elizabet rolled her eyes. [...]
Posted in Cuisine, Life During Wartime, Literature, Music, Politics, Sports on Feb 28th, 2010
I read The Sunday Times, so you don’t have to: Feb. 28
Good morning. I made Grandma Spevak’s sausage yesterday, grinding the meat and stuffing the hog casings myself. Now the house still smells like garlic and pork fat. Let’s get to The Times:
1, Media reports immediately following Barack Obama’s Thursday health care summit left [...]