Saturday, March 20th, 2010
Articles by Lauren Beebe:
The ‘Pontoon’ will not be sinking anytime soon
Imagine the collision of a funeral ceremony involving a crematory ash-filled bowling ball being dropped into a lake by a nude parasailer; a non-traditional wedding ...
Learn to travel the world by ‘Learning to Breathe’
You can travel all over the world, but the greatest journey you will every take will be inside yourself. The autobiographical book “Learning to Breathe” ...
Emotional, psychological winter in July’s latest
“No One Belongs Here More Than You” is a collection of short stories by the multi-talented Miranda July. Written from perspectives of varying experiences, genders ...
Digging out memories of 9/11 in “Falling Man”
These are the elements of Don DeLillo’s “Falling Man”: Smoke rising and rubble falling, acts of extreme selfishness or altruism played out in an atmosphere ...
“Specimen days” pieces together stories to understand human psyche
“Specimen Days,” written by Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Hours,” is a compilation of three stories: a ghost story set during the ...
Book Review Milan Kundera’s ‘Ignorance’
Kundera’s “Ignorance” is a modern version of the Great Return, coming home after the Odyssey has taken place. While simultaneously questioning if such a return ...
‘What is the What’ provides unique perspective of Lost Boys
Dave Eggers’ “What is the What” is the true story of Valentino Achak Deng, a young boy who escapes from the massacre of his home ...
BOOK REVIEW: Water for Elephants
“Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen is the story of a young bereft man who finds himself employed as a veterinarian in a Depression-era traveling ...
Decline of American reading culture: Literature’s struggle in face of pop culture
According to the 2004 survey by the National Endowment for the Arts called “Reading at Risk,” less than half of Americans read literature for pleasure. ...
BOOK REVIEW ‘The Professor and the Madman’
If you don’t already have an obsession with words, you might wonder why Simon Winchester’s “The Professor and the Madman” was even written. But this ...
