May 2008

salvador dali on what’s my line

by Cathleen Schine on May 19, 2008

Thank you, 3quarks daily! Yes, you give me poetry and essays about black holes, but you also give me this: click here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXT2E9Ccc8A

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Rocketdog and The Booksmith

by Cathleen Schine on May 17, 2008

I did a reading in San Francisco that was a fundraiser for a group called Rocketdog. Rocketdog takes older, less obviously adoptable dogs and finds homes for them. The Booksmith is one of the country’s few remaining independent bookstores. Her is a picture of my handsome, attentive, gracious Rocketdog host, Sinbad, in this wonderful bookstore.

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Angela Thirkell on Mother’s Day

by Cathleen Schine on May 11, 2008

A while ago Verlyn Klinkenborg wrote about Angela Thirkell in his column and I was jealous that he liked her so much because I had tried to read her stuff years ago and found it annoying and twee. But my friend Jeanette recently hunted up a bunch of the novels and passed them on to

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