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Girls Just Want to Get Mad: Female Anger in Children’s Literature
Girls Just Want to Get Mad: Female Anger in Children’s Literature In the summer of 1997, I gave a lecture at a Susanville, California library as part of a state-sponsored program to bring UC faculty to remote communities. Only eight people showed up for my talk, but they seemed interested and lingered for conversation. [...]
My Politics
I want to begin with two poems by William Butler Years, one of my favorite poets, poems I quite like but think are wrong headed. The first, “Politics,” has as an epigraph a statement by the German novelist and in my opinion giant windbag, Thomas Mann: `In our time the destiny of man presents its [...]
Favorite East Bay Foods
Everett and Jones ribs Picanté tortilla chips Fentons black and tan sundae Café Fanny café au lait La Farine morning bun Meal Ticket Poor Boy (oyster or soft shell crab) T-Rex pulled pork sandwich Sea Salt dollar oysters before six Sea Salt lobster roll Gioia Pizza Cheeseboard Zampano Dream Fluff donuts Fat Apples ollalaberry pie [...]
Morning Conversation
One morning I was sitting at the kitchen table Reading the sports page when my wife came home From an early doctor’s appointment She started complaining about the mammogram She had just endured, but I paid little attention, Immersed as I was in the newspaper. Irritated, she finally asked me, “How would you like your [...]