tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52498446940448076672011-05-03T07:58:43.615-04:00madison, new hampshireandy frostnoreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5249844694044807667.post-50266263391629151092008-08-17T18:36:00.011-04:002008-08-18T14:00:48.416-04:00

I just discovered a few authors that I should have known about for years but didn't - so shoot me. Given the gritty depressing reading list, I feel like Virgil has me by the nuts and is pulling me down the dark narrow steps to the Inferno with chicken legs Alighieri trying to peek over my shoulder.George Saunders. I've got The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil and In Persuassion Nation, Stories

andy frostnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5249844694044807667.post-4837732712497218122008-08-17T18:23:00.005-04:002008-08-17T18:36:23.455-04:00

I just finished "Home Before Dark", Susan Cheever's 1984 bio of her Dad, John Cheever. It appears pretty non-sentimental and non-nostalgic. She doesn't dismiss or minimize his alcoholism or sexual struggles but does, in an afterword interview admit to eliminating a few anecdotes so as to spare some family members or friends some embarrassment or discomfort. S Cheever's got experience in the

andy frostnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5249844694044807667.post-18347741169049507092008-08-17T13:31:00.001-04:002008-08-17T13:33:37.205-04:00

When the harp starts the mind is transported. Deborah Henson-Conant begins a tour of her freshly written one woman, story telling, high octane, finger lickin’ good musical, “What The Hell Are You Doing In The Waiting Room For Heaven?”. I saw her at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge. Often funny, sometimes pensive. Sometimes its about the harp, sometimes about the song. Deborah commands the

andy frostnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5249844694044807667.post-71868872125414255742007-03-09T16:52:00.000-05:002007-03-09T16:59:43.286-05:00

madison new hampshire. where it all begins.

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