I’m jotting this down with about an hour left of Sunday.\u00a0 I started today in New York City, the Borough of Brooklyn to be exact, and to save money and for whatever other high-minded reason, I didn’t buy a Sunday New York Times which costs more here where I live, eight miles south of the Washington Monument, than it does in New York City itself where I actually, physically was present.\u00a0 Online, glancing through my Really Simple Syndicated (RSS) Reader just now, I realize I would have been clipping articles from that paper today, one after the other, snip, snip, snip, preserving juicy chunks of literarily expressed wisdom.\u00a0 I thought about posting the articles on Facebook but\u00a0 is that any place to put something important to you?<\/p>\n
I wanted to preserve three articles each written by an author, Margaret Atwood, a Canadian, Martin Amis, a Britain, and E.L. Doctorow, an American, in which each were asked to “consider the question of America and its role in global political culture.” \u00a0 Never mind that I agreed with the politics behind the articles: I make it a point to avoid politics on this blog.\u00a0 I immortalize the pieces here, spill my own ink on this page, because each is a well-written, literary expression of opinion, of commentary.\u00a0 One is fiction, one memoir, and one satire.\u00a0 This blog celebrates the literary, whether by offering ways anybody can act literarily any day they feel like it, or by showing off examples of literary writing.\u00a0 Here are links to the articles.\u00a0 Let me know what you think.<\/p>\n
Marty and Nick Go to America<\/a>\u00a0 (Martin Amis) I’m jotting this down with about an hour left of Sunday.\u00a0 I started today in New York City, the Borough of Brooklyn to be exact, and to save money and for whatever other high-minded reason, I didn’t buy a Sunday … Continue reading
\nHello Martians.\u00a0 This is America<\/a>\u00a0 (Margaret Atwood)
\nUnexceptionalism – A Primer<\/a>\u00a0 (E.L. Doctorow)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"