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Archive for the 'All Christmas Issue' CategoryFur releaseDecember 1st, 2004 BY CLINTON WILSON Tipi Khan is behind the wheel of the taxi cab as we’re stalled in mid-morning traffic at the entrance to the Midtown tunnel en route to LaGuardia, where I’ll board a Northwest flight destined for Boise. If it had been a shorter distance safely within the boundaries of Manhattan during a later, inebriated ride, I might have engaged him in a conversation about the dark stain his namesake left on European history, but now I am tensely quiet as I think about my impending familial visitat. It’s a prodigal-son return without the chastened spirit, one I’ve been dreading for almost three years. I don’t know what I fear more, fulfilling a promise I made to my mother to sit through a Mary Kay demonstration, knowing she wants to use me to capture the New York cosmetic market, or helping her sift through four recently unearthed boxes of papers, journals, and memorabilia from my youth.
Posted by: The Editors A straits ChristmasDecember 1st, 2004 BY JOEL HESS I experienced my finest and most traditional Christmas ever in, of all places, Singapore. As a Jewish kid growing up in an Irish and Italian Catholic neighborhood, I had decidedly mixed feelings about Christmas. On the one hand, the season would find everyone on the block in a charitable mood, which was a pleasant change of pace, since I was an odd duck among my peers, and their normal attitude towards me was at best to ignore me and at worst to be outright hostile. But to a Jewish kid in a Christian environment, Christmas mainly means deprivation. All around you are lovely decorations and jolly carols and glowing faces and breathless anticipation, and finally, on the big day, cool presents and a fancy dinner and a break from the tired old routine. What do we get? A distinctly minor holiday in which the biggest excitement is spinning a top. Just doesn’t compare. So I pretty much always avoided Christmas.
Posted by: The Editors Honorary Black LambsDecember 1st, 2004 BY BLACK LAMB December is a fertile month for artistic birthdays, from which we’ve chosen four Honorary Black Lambs to add to our accumulating Black Lamb Literary Calendar. Here are four short assessments and selected bibliographies, your capsule guides to some of literature’s great figures.
Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski in Poland, has often been praised for his mastery of his second language, but in fact he wrote in a strange un-Engish. After a couple of notable books he published his so-called masterpiece, Lord Jim, in 1900, then needed the help of Ford Madox Hueffer (later Ford Madox Ford) on three subsequent novels. We confess to a weakness for The Nigger of the Narcissus, but then we’re soft on sea stories, which is probably why we tolerate Lord Jim so far as we do. Conrad’s is a bizarre and non-influential body of work. Novels The Nigger of the Narcissus, 1897. Lord Jim, 1900. Nostromo, 1904. The Secret Agent, 1907. Short stories & tales Typhoon, 1902. Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories, 1902. The Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad, 1933.
Posted by: The Editors Dealing with ChristmasDecember 1st, 2004 BY MILLICENT MARSHALL In the spirit of this special issue of Black Lamb, here are a few Christmas letters from my mailbag. Dear Millie, I have a point to make. Christmas is on its way, and once again my husband and I will have to put up with sermons in pulpits and newspapers about the horrible commercialism of this holiday. Don’t people ever give a thought to the thousands and thousands (perhaps millions) of people who, like my family, make their living supplying and producing Christmas-related consumer goods? Holiday Spirit Dear Spirit, No, I suppose preachers in and out of church don’t give much of a thought to the makers of holiday fruit baskets, the harvesters of Christmas trees, and the manufacturers of tinsel, wrapping paper, and a million other holiday “necessities.” Why should they?
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