Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Who's Gonna Drive You Home? Gravity Head's 22nd bacchanal begins on February 28.

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Gravity Head XXII (okay, right on; not the Super Bowl, so "the 22nd running") returns to the NABC Pizzeria & Public House on...
Tuesday, December 03, 2019

12 Days of Slovenia & Trieste (Part 10): "In Trieste, words feature more prominently than art."

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James Joyce and Italo Svevo: The story of a friendship. Earlier this year I did something I very rarely do and reread a novel: Zeno...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Searching for the perfect pub, among other links to educational beer fare.

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"In the end, that’s what all of us long for in a pub: somewhere to go in which we can have a relaxing drink in a convivial atmosphere ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

ON THE AVENUES: I'd stop drinking, but I'm no quitter (the 2019 Gravity Head remix).

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ON THE AVENUES: I'd stop drinking, but I'm no quitter (the 2019 Gravity Head remix). A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. --- ...
Thursday, November 01, 2018

ON THE AVENUES: Three books by Polish writers.

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ON THE AVENUES: Three books by Polish writers. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. In recognition of our ongoing Polish travels, today...
Thursday, February 09, 2017

ON THE AVENUES: I'd stop drinking, but I'm no quitter.

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ON THE AVENUES: I'd stop drinking, but I'm no quitter.  A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. Col. Sherman T. Potter: I gather...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Two decades and three documentaries about Philip Roth.

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The writer at 60: BBC Arena's Philip Roth (1993). Philip Roth at 70: Interview with David Rennick (2003). Finally, at 80:...
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Sunday morning coffee reading: "Why Orwell was a literary mediocrity."

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The author does not begrudge Orwell's talents. Rather, he feels "less well-disposed to those mediocrities who slavishly worship at ...
Monday, May 05, 2014

A place for purposeless walking.

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The timing of this essay could not be more apt, given the way my mind and body seem to be working these days. It strikes me that much of the...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

"Anonymous," but in London, not NA.

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At first I was disappointed. I was expecting it to be about the little people of New Albany. But the movie was entertaining, and while I...
Thursday, October 07, 2010

Today's Tribune column: "Open Air conditioning mechanisms."

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Alongside the remainder of the annual Harvest Homecoming, Fringe Fest at Bank Street Brewhouse opens today at 2:00 p.m. I decided to leave ...
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