![]() ![]() ![]() By then I was somewhat inured to the various revelations of Jack Kennedy’s private life. In 1997 I read with great interest Seymour Hersh’s book “The Dark Side of Camelot.” It was there, for first time, I read about Mary Meyer’s murder. ![]() Over the years, the protracted intimate exposé of the man, his times and his unresolved death, would fascinate Americans of all ages, but none more so than those of us alive and sentient enough to recall with clarity the details of where we were the day he died. So began the nation’s lifelong interest in the vagaries and intricacies behind the killing a president. I knew before I climbed the front porch that our youthful President was dead. Approaching the front lawn of our small farm, I saw my mother holding the front door half open with her head buried in the crook of her elbow sobbing uncontrollably. Somehow, by the time we debarked at my rural stop, word had reached us that the President had been shot. Boarding the school buses already idling on the roundabout parking drive all students were taken home. ![]() At midday Friday, November 22, 1963, my junior high school administration announced the suddenly and immediate closure of the school day – without explanation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Carrie Louise has her family living with her, as her granddaughter Gina has brought her American husband Walter to England to meet her family. She is impressed by the size of the Victorian mansion, which now has a separate building for delinquent boys, the cause which engages Carrie Louise and her third husband, Lewis Serrocold. She asks Miss Marple to visit Carrie Louise at Stonygates, her home in England. While visiting her American school friend Ruth Van Rydock in London, Miss Marple learns that Ruth is seriously concerned for her sister Carrie Louise. ![]() A later review considered that this novel showed "Definite signs of decline" and felt the author was not entirely comfortable with the setting she described in the novel. One review at the time of publication praised the essence of the plot but felt the latter half of the novel moved too slowly. ![]() The book features her detective Miss Marple. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at ten shillings and sixpence (10/6). They Do It with Mirrors is a detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1952 under the title of Murder with Mirrors and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on 17 November that year under Christie's original title. ![]() ![]() ![]() Formally, You'll Like it Here works in conversation with Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Maggie Nelson's Bluets, Amina Cain's Indelicacy, and Kathryn Scanlan's Aug 9 Fog. Ashton used digital archives from the Redondo Reflex and other city adjacent newspapers as the basis for his surrealist account, masterfully tracing this larger shift away from coastal maritime repose in the wake of the Spanish Flu, the Great Depression, and World War II through momentary fragments that feel as real and palpable as they do transient, mythological, and strangely reminiscent of our current times. You'll Like it Here is a haunting bricolage, divided into three parts, that excavates the forgotten history of Redondo Beach in the early 1900's through old news clippings, advertisements, recipes and other ephemera that speak to the ills of male stoicism, industrialization and capitalism, and environmental displacement. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ariel Schrag’s scathingly funny and poignant debut novel puts a fresh spin on questions of love, attraction, self-definition, and what it takes to be at home in your own skin. Unless passing as a trans guy might actually work in his favor. Why else would this baby-faced guy always be around? Then Adam meets Gillian, the girl of his dreams-but she couldn’t possibly be interested in him. It takes some time for him to realize that many in this new crowd assume he is trans-a boy who was born a girl. Soon Adam is tagging along to underground clubs, where there are hot older women everywhere he turns. Gay marriage and transgender rights are in the air, and Casey has thrust herself into a wild lesbian subculture. When Adam Freedman-a skinny, awkward, inexperienced teenager from Piedmont, California-goes to stay with his older sister Casey in New York City, he is hopeful that his life is about to change. A sweet and subversive coming-of-age novel by award-winning memoirist and screenwriter Ariel Schrag. ![]() |