Short Takes
September 6, 2011
Jim Lehrer, Old Greenwich, September 15
The veteran newsman is also an accomplished writer. Over lunch at the Innis Arden Club on 9/15, he’ll discuss his a new book Tension City: Inside The Presidential Debates, From Kennedy-Nixon To Obama-McCain. For information and tickets, click here.August 22, 2011
Theodora Roosevelt Keogh
She may have been the best female writer of her time — kudos to you if you can name one of her nine novels. Joan Schenkar was her devoted reader and friend. In the Paris Review, she makes you wish you knew her.
August 21, 2011
Tempting, isn’t it?
Escape. Into the Wild. Without regard to “consequences.” Sometimes it’s life-affirming; sometimes fatal; sometimes both. Maybe best to start with Sean Penn’s great movie and/or Eddie Vedder’s haunting music.
August 16, 2011
Mick Jagger: ‘There’s nothing wrong with you I can’t fix’
His last solo CD sold 900 copies in London, so on this solo effort, he’s assembled a group called SuperHeavy and taken a more…shall we say…supporting role. Is it anything? (Apologies for the commercial prologue.)
August 14, 2011
My Weekend: A Wedding on the River
My wife’s sister has been married for 25 years. She and her husband re-upped at few years ago — at the Elvis chapel in Vegas, of course — and, last weekend, they did it again, this time at a Tara-like B&B on the Ohio River. Look back: Kentucky tobacco fields. Look over: Indiana. Mid-view: barges moving up-river. A horse and carriage delivered the bride. The "minister," an old friend, had online credentials.The ceremony was heartfelt and raucous, two words never before seen in a single sentence. During the reception, a half dozen guests marched in wearing Royal Family masks; the Queen of England led the conga line. After, on my brother-in-law’s deck, he told the joke of the night: "I asked a man how long he’d been married. He said, ‘Twenty years.’ I asked: ‘To the same woman?’ He said, sadly, ‘No. She’s changed.’" Kudos, Linda & John.
