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Pulitzer honors

When I agree with both Oprah and the Pulitzer Prize Committee on a novel, you know it’s got to be good. Well, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road today won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Gee, I wonder where my picking it as one of my books of the year ranks with that and Oprah picking it […]

A major icon lost

There is no other way to put it. I was totally and absolutely stunned to read this morning that Kurt Vonnegut died Wednesday night. Given his age (84), it is not totally unexpected. Still, there is that feeling that a void has suddenly appeared in my literary soul.

It is somewhat embarrassing that I can’t […]

The USHL and the Frozen Four

This year’s Frozen Four again showed some of the best and the competitiveness of college hockey. None of the number one seeds in the four regions made the final grouping. Michigan State, a “bubble team” just prior to tourney selections, ended up the champion, winning Saturday night with 18.9 seconds left on the clock. The […]

Palecek to appear at Zandbroz Friday

Iowa author and peace activist Mike Palecek will be appearing at Zandbroz Variety in downtown Sioux Falls the evening of Friday, April 6, as part of the tour for his new book, The American Dream. I have been horribly remiss in not mentioning this before since Mike was kind enough to give me a heads […]

Interim marginalia

To show I am still alive (at least I am operating under that impression, true or not), I thought I would pass along a couple things that struck me in my recent limited trips to the internet.

I have often said over the last six years that I feel like we are living in a […]