Here’s a letter I wrote to Harper’s about an article in their Nov. 04 issue: Mark Slouka (“Quitting the Paint Factory” Nov. 04) did an inspiring “job” of demonstrating the value of hard-working idleness”¦ his ruminations on our overworked culture and the religion of The Economy led serendipitously through the Futurists to the Future”¦er um, […]
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The Factory by M.J. Carden www.publishamerica.com: Baltimore, 2004, 291 pages, ISBN 1-4137-0733-5 This novel is set in a small machine factory in England in the early 1970s. It begins with a young man, terribly disaffected after years of rote, mind-numbing schooling, getting a job from the local employment office and showing up to work with […] Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami This novel pulled me in and held me spellbound, occupying that favored niche known as my night book” the one I read for 15-45 minutes before falling asleep. I prefer good fiction as my eyes fail and I grow tired. This story is not […] |
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