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Sparrow’s 2022 Year in Books
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Sparrow .
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July 2008
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Yes, You Are a Revolutionary!: Plus Seven Other Books by Sparrow
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2002
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America: A Prophecy - The Sparrow Reader
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2005
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Republican Like Me: A Diary of My Presidential Campaign
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2001
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Test Drive
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1998
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August December
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2011
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That's Cool
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1992
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I Hope Sparrow Runs for President
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1992
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Animals
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1991
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Choice Sayings of Wisdom for Modern Elders
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I Am Nettie: Let not my darkness fool you, for I Am, Satan's true adversary
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Sparrow’s Recent Updates
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There’s one point where John says: “That white album with the drawings on it, was that before or after Rubber Soul?“ He can’t remember the name of Revolver! And for a guy who ruined his life by falling in love with Yoko, he seems quite impatient with h ...more |
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I stupidly wrote a second review of it, and here it is:
Somehow Sciascia has written a book in which the protagonist is a town. True, there is a person ...more " |
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This is the final book — not the last book, but the final one. After The Street of Crocodiles, no more novels need be written. And maybe it’s not even a novel; possibly it’s a series of “linked” short fictions. We know this book by the wrong name. In P ...more |
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I found myself thinking: “Having a surname which precisely repeats, how does that affect one’s view of life? Perhaps it leads to a certain fatalism?” My friend Ely at Unnameable Books (in Prospect Heights) offered me this book (for a price) and I read ...more |
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My wife did. I think it's on Plank Road. I am extremely unobservant, as you may have noticed. Let me know if you want to borrow the book, or have it f
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1962, a lost era when nonfiction books didn’t need subtitles! (Anyway, this is not so much a book as an after-dinner conversation with a worldly yet slightly inebriated French theorist.) (And its thesis leads surprisingly to … Bergson, who thought ver ...more |
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Who knew that such richly decrepit buildings exist in our USA? Gross & Daley have assembled a vocabulary of decay. One photograph was taken in my town, Phoenicia: a greying domicile with the title “Gothic riverside house.” And there’s no introduction! ...more |
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| The best true crime book I’ve ever gripped in my pitiless hands! The misbegotten murder takes place in Queens Village, deep in the night of March 19, 1927. And the story is very 1927 – an era of gibbering prosperity, & triumphant newspaper headlining ...more | |
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Thanks for the weather report – I've never been to LA (I think I maybe implied that in this review). But I find the place fascinating, and as a noir-l
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I never heard that – I did see him once, in Gainesville Florida, in 1976 (with Allen Ginsberg). He was imperious, private, kingly.
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“When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”
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“Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.”
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“The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.”
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“Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. ”
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Thank you. No, I don't think you ever sent me a photo. I would like to see it!
I love that picture of you. I just enlarged it so I could see what was going on. I have a great picture of you from the workshop in NC. Did I ever send you one?
Hi Sparrow. Nice to see you again. Do you have a rubber duckie?
I also hope you're having a good day. But I must ask, why no picture? Maybe after the teeth are brushed you'll put one up? Or perhaps that's just my useless optimism, rearing it's pointless little head...
thank you. The day is getting rather advanced -- time to work on my tooth brushing, really. But I get a little obsessed with late-night e-mailing. I hope your day is, or was, flagrantly happy.
I heard you bought one of Dada and my books, Tools to Change the World. Could you please review it for Goodreads? Amazon would be great, too, if you can.
Sisterly,
Miirabaii