by Michael Lesiuk | Jan 24, 2014 | Fiction/Lit/Movies
Four years ago I wrote a post about hard to find, unpublished short stories by J.D. Salinger, including his short story “The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls.” Since then I’ve taught a few English Lit courses that have had several of Salinger’s...
by Michael Lesiuk | Jun 15, 2012 | Jokes
All those Cylons, they’re just a bunch of phonies. What’s their “plan,” anyways, for God’s sake? They don’t have a plan. Every time the pilots walk in and out of the ready room they touch this black and white photo of a viper pilot on his goddamn knees or something....
by Michael Lesiuk | Apr 24, 2012 | Fiction/Lit/Movies
Simon Prebble’s reading of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is quite good. I’ve been listening to it on my runs and while I’m doing mindless tasks like making dinner or cleaning. The Literary Theory course by Paul Fry from...
by Michael Lesiuk | Nov 6, 2009 | Fiction/Lit/Movies
Back in high school, one of my English teachers gave us “Teddy” by J.D. Salinger to read and then talk about in class, and at the end of the term he put Salinger’s “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” on the final exam. (And on a high school...