Europeans and Parents
What crap. Even worse than American shit. No, I'm talking about sports reporting. It's Euro-trash 13 year old pat journalism. Journalism????? Did I say that? Read the fan pages for Euro soccer teams. It makes American baseball sound like Dickens. Oh, we're excited about the next game and we must pla ...
Happy Birthday William Howard Taft
Today is William Howard Taft's birthday. He was born on September 15, 1857. If he was alive today (as he was in Jason Heller's terrific novel Taft 2012, reviewed here) he would be 157 years old. William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States, was born near Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the o ...
Miss America 2015, vince Miss New York Kira Kazantsev
Ieri sera, al termine della cerimonia andata in scena ad Atlantic City, Kira Kazantsev è stata dichiarata Miss America 2015. Figli di emigrati russi, Kira ha 23 anni ed era arrivata sul palco al concorso di bellezza più importante degli States dopo essersi aggiudicata Miss New York. È la terza volta ...
Flophouse American Diaspora Reading List
“Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.” Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 Time for an update of the Flophouse American Diaspora Reading List - the best books and articles I've read recently about American people ...
