02.22.2015 Community By the Book: When dieting, some of us go by the book January has disappeared around the corner, taking with it the shreds of hundreds, maybe thousands, of New Year’s resolutions. I think any resolution that lasted, say, 13 days, was...
01.25.2015 Community By the Book: An assessment of a book-filled year 2015! I’m doing quickie overviews of the dozen books the Southold library book club read in 2014 — neither recommending nor dismissing, just personal impressions and conclusions.
12.21.2014 Community By the Book: A dose of merriment and Christmas cheer Christmas is next week, a holy and joyful day filled with memories of the past and dreams for the future. An early memory for me is midnight Mass in the...
09.21.2014 Community By the Book: There are plenty of baseball books, but football? Baseball season is coming to a close and football is now upon us. I’ve done columns about baseball books — the classics, like Malamud’s “The Natural,” Doris Kearns Goodwin’s...
07.21.2014 Community By the Book: Let the works speak for themselves I recently found two columns about books, the first amusing, the other a little troubling. The troubling one was about “trigger warnings,” notes of caution affixed to college reading...
05.18.2014 Community Columns By the Book: He’s having his way with wacky wordplay I’m without a theme or new idea so it’s mixed-grill time again. I like this sort of column — there’s no worrying whether everything hangs together, like in English...
04.20.2014 Community Columns By the Book: There’s nothing like a great gumshoe It was a dark and stormy night. I dragged myself home from an endless stakeout, popped a Dos Equis and sprawled on the couch. Watched a documentary on “Butch...
03.23.2014 Community Columns By the Book: Nonfiction allows war tales to resonate I recently finished two books about war and the men who fight them. There were many similarities: Each followed a young soldier, each focused on a particularly ugly battle,...
02.23.2014 Community By the Book: When your heart’s not in it, read this St. Valentine’s Day has come and gone — a day of cards and candy, but mostly a day of hearts. The cards overflow with them, the candy boxes are...
06.08.2012 Community By the Book: Why some vowels are weird and wonderful Remember learning the vowels, A, E, I, O and U, with the teacher inevitably adding “ … and sometimes Y and W”? Well, I’ve come up with 16 impressive...