Short Takes
December 4, 2011
Have I ever told you about…..
Sometimes life serves up an amazing story. And it gets told. Again. And again. Richard Babcock — the greatest magazine editor who ever threw it over for writing — has taken that situation, set it in a marriage, and turned it into a short story that Alfred Hitchcock would happily have turned into a half-hour drama. My Wife’s Story can be downloaded for 99 cents. Cheap thrills, indeed.
December 3, 2011
You know the song, but with this footage….
The singer is Blind Willie Johnson. He’s been praised here.
December 2, 2011
Memo from Gretl Claggett: Dear Jerry Sandusky, Man Up
Many of you were as blown away as I was by Gretl Claggett’s interview with Kathryn Harrison. Now, on the Daily Beast, she’s taken on a tougher challenge: telling her own abuse story in an open letter to Joe Paterno’s assistant football coach at Penn State. Brace yourselves.
