The Real Chris Lee

Today’s edition comes with a bonus story: this evening while riding the muni back from the gym I sat down next to a gentleman rolling an enormous doobie. Despite the absurdity of the moment I admired his chutzpah; his female companion, however, seemed wholly disinterested. I began to doubt his resolve when he [...]

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The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
Become Who You Were Born to Be: We All Have a Gift…Have You Discovered Yours? by Brian Souza
The Stolen Relic (Nancy Drew: All [...]

Paul Theroux’s Mr. Bones is a brilliant study of family dynamics. The narrator describes his father as a heartbreakingly kind milquetoast with a dead-end life and an unappeasable wife. When the father turns to a second life as a blackface performer in a minstrel show, the narrator’s queasiness is more than just palpable – it’s [...]