by Lynne Weiss | Aug 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
I finally got around to watching Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods and I was deeply impressed. While a part of me questioned the whole digging up the gold story (echoes of Treasure of the Sierra Madre?), the way the film interpolated elements of African-American history (so...
by Lynne Weiss | Aug 19, 2021 | What I'm Seeing and Hearing
The Yiddish Book Center A trip to Amherst, Mass., allowed us to visit the Yiddish Book Center this afternoon. I remember seeing signs for this place when I lived in Amherst in the early 1980s. My impression was that it was then nothing more than an old barn filled...
by Lynne Weiss | Aug 14, 2021 | What I'm Thinking
To Travel or Not I am looking forward to a trip to Istanbul, planned for mid-October 2021. And yet we wonder whether travel means exposure to the Delta variant or other variants that might be even more pernicious. A recent episode of NPR’s 1A discussed this...
by Lynne Weiss | Jul 29, 2021 | What I'm Reading
Making Sense of Leonard Woolf’s “Three Jews” While researching the atmosphere of Britain in the interwar years, I learned that the first book printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press, Two Stories, included one by each of the...
by Lynne Weiss | Jul 21, 2021 | What I'm Reading
May Sinclair—A Forgotten Writer She was a best-selling writer in her day. The toast of the town, who had a Rolls Royce and a driver. Yet she died lonely and forgotten. I discuss her career and her insights in this article in Literary Ladies Guide. Search for: Recent...
