These in-depth, thought-provoking, and often funny posts are the brainchild of The Book Barn's very own Glenn. He never fails to make a great recommendation, useful warning or entertaining suggestion!
A Note Before the First. An index of Subjects. The subjects: 1: Kenneth Rexroth’s Classics Revisited. 2: The Tale of Genji. 3: The poetry of Daniel Huws. 4: The novels of Jonis Agee. 5: Five (or twelve) great mysteries. 6: The literature of the Blasket Islands. 7: Zen: Shunryū Suzuki, Robert Aitken, R.H. Blyth, and Brian Victoria’s Zen At War. 8: The letters of Van Gogh, Keats, Helene Hanff, and the Shaw-Terry correspondence. 9: The journals of Pepys, Thoreau and Dorothy Wor
#298: WHAT IF SHAME BECAME A MONSTER? Set in Victoria, Australia, under a wide-open landscape of smoke-belching industrial chimneys and bleak skies, Adrian Chiarella in his new film “Leviticus” takes all the tropes of horror movies—ominous pauses, horrified stares, and some very nasty business going on just offscreen—and aims them at two teen-aged boys, Naim (Joe Bird) and Ryan (Stacy Clausen). We first see them in an abandoned warehouse, doing a little smoking and snogging
