July 2015 – Page 2 – Light On Dark Water

July 5, 2015

52 Authors: Week 27 – Ross Macdonald

I wonder whether Ross Macdonald is as highly regarded as he once was. Perhaps serious students and fans of the mystery genre still rank him with Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, but it wouldn't surprise me if his reputation has suffered. Why? A suspicion that he might be considered old-fashioned, conventional, and bourgeois. The stout…

4th of July

Melodramatic? Yes, I suppose. But I'm afraid that the country is no longer run by people who love it.

Is it “marriage”?

I have, of course, been thinking a lot about the Obergefell decision and its implications. (And by the way–I never really learned very much in my German classes, but doesn't that word at least strongly suggest "fallen over" or "fall over" or something of that sort? Very appropriate if it does.) I don't feel up…