02.22.2015 Community By the Book: When dieting, some of us go by the book January has disappeared around the corner, taking with it the shreds of hundreds, maybe thousands, of New Year’s resolutions. I think any resolution that lasted, say, 13 days, was...
01.25.2015 Community By the Book: An assessment of a book-filled year 2015! I’m doing quickie overviews of the dozen books the Southold library book club read in 2014 — neither recommending nor dismissing, just personal impressions and conclusions.
12.21.2014 Community By the Book: A dose of merriment and Christmas cheer Christmas is next week, a holy and joyful day filled with memories of the past and dreams for the future. An early memory for me is midnight Mass in the...
11.23.2014 Community By the Book: Does the page count? It’s said that you can’t judge books by their covers, and you certainly can’t judge them by the four-color, over-the-top advertisements in various Sunday papers. Also, I’ve stopped paying...
10.19.2014 Community By the Book: Some good old words that deserve new life There aren’t many books you can buy in three different weights — the 100-pound version, the 30-pounder or the three-pound bantam weight — but the Oxford English Dictionary would...
09.21.2014 Community By the Book: There are plenty of baseball books, but football? Baseball season is coming to a close and football is now upon us. I’ve done columns about baseball books — the classics, like Malamud’s “The Natural,” Doris Kearns Goodwin’s...
08.23.2014 Community By the Book: Good reading is all about the writing I’d forgotten the name of a character in a book and went to Wikipedia. I found what I wanted, but was struck by how easy it is to find...
07.21.2014 Community By the Book: Let the works speak for themselves I recently found two columns about books, the first amusing, the other a little troubling. The troubling one was about “trigger warnings,” notes of caution affixed to college reading...