Category Archives: Literature

The New Nobel Prize In Literature

On his radio show Friday, Dennis Prager reads a poem from the new Nobel Prize winner, Swedish poet, Tomas Tranströmer. Dennis also read a poem of his creation over a commercial break and a poem from his producer Allen Estrin … Continue reading

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My Name Is Asher Lev

I discuss this novel with Monica, an English Literature professor. We were prompted with these questions by another English Lit professor — a Christian — who’s teaching the book to her class: 1. Early on in My Name Is Asher … Continue reading

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‘Black Cracker’ – Josh Alan Friedman’s First Novel

Wednesday night I stop by Book Soup on Sunset Blvd for the first stop of the New Texture literary tour with authors Wyatt Doyle, Josh Alan Friedman and Chris Desjardins. Josh Alan’s new book, Black Cracker, has seven glowing reviews … Continue reading

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Middlemarch by George Eliot

I’m near the end of this novel. A few weeks ago, I saw the BBC miniseries. I’m struck by the shunning delivered to one of the major characters in the novel when it is discovered that he came by his … Continue reading

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Hatred Of Americans

I’ve never suffered from Jew-hatred in the United States, but I constantly meet online Europeans who loathe Jews and Americans. It would never occur to me upon meeting somebody obnoxious or shallow to attribute their bad traits to their race … Continue reading

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