My Son, the Nonreader
Perhaps I should have tried to make sure it didn’t end up on that inevitable list we sons compose of our shortcomings in our father’s eyes.
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The Starting Six: On the Remarkable Glory Days of Iowa Girls Basketball
Girls basketball was part of the culture. Each spring the TV broadcasts from the capacity crowds at the state’s largest arena in Des Moines took over one of the three stations our antenna received, and it was largely from these games that I learned the names of small town Iowa: Grundy Center, Montezuma, What Cheer.
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Goodbye Old Friends: On Selling My Books
But I must come clean. As fun as it is to get a sale, my currently listed volumes are moving at a pace which would take some 70 years to empty my e-store. Of course, that's assuming people will continue to prize certain books: great out-of-print novels, first editions, volumes signed by the author. As e-books continue to take market share, paper books may be destined to become decorative objects, like cupboards built to hold commodes or vinyl album covers.
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