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Archive for the 'Month summaries' CategoryThis Month in Black LambVolume 8, Number 8 — August 2010August 1st, 2010 In the cover story of our August issue, Black Lamb newcomer Benjamin Feliciano begins a column that will be called Day In, Day Out with A day in the life. In American dreamer, Terry Ross tells the story of his immigrant paternal grandfather, Louis Roslafsky. John M. Daniel reflects on the guitars in his life in Gifts with strings attached.
Posted by: The Editors Last Month in Black LambVolume 8, Number 7 — July 2010July 1st, 2010 The Black Lamb Review of Books In this Black Lamb Review of Books, a seventh annual issue devoted entirely to books and reading, editor Terry Ross reflects on his springtime reading, which as included four novels by Frederick Buechner, Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, two books by Jim Harrison, a Forties noir classic, and novels by Wallace Stegner, Edith Wharton, and Frederic Raphael. Greg Roberts reports on the autobiography of Isaac Stephenson, an honest politician vilified during his lifetime.
Posted by: The Editors Two months ago in Black LambVolume 8, Number 6 — June 2010June 1st, 2010 In the cover essay of our June issue, A Mad Tea Party, Toby Tompkins takes a look at America’s screw-loose political movement. Greg Roberts remembers raising bunnies as a kid with In praise of rabbits. In Name dropping in the Bush League, John M. Daniel relates family anecdotes of the George Bushes, father and son.
Posted by: The Editors May 2010 in Black LambVolume 8, Number 5 – May 2010May 1st, 2010 The All Memorial Issue In the cover essay of our All-Memorial Issue, Meeting Guy, John M. Daniel recalls his long-distance relationship with an extraordinary first cousin, Guy Waterman. Our page two feature, Eastertide, is a letter written in 2002 describing the colorful and moving Paschal traditions in an Amalfi coast village.
Posted by: The Editors April 2010 in Black LambVolume 8, Number 4 — April 2010April 1st, 2010 In our cover essay, A regrettable decision, Terry Ross tells of a friend who gave away most of his carefully collected library and wishes he hadn’t. In Foundation for a bitter life, Greg Roberts deplores the sappy television commercials of the Foundation for a Better Life. Thong underwear devotee Beren deMotier describes the most embarrassing moment of her life in A cautionary tale.
Posted by: The Editors March 2010 in Black LambVolume 8, Number 3 — March 2010March 1st, 2010 The All Crime Issue In our cover article, attorney Bud Gardner looks back on My career in crime. In Even I am a criminal, Greg Roberts observes that practically everything has been criminalized. In Crimes against the person, Rosemary McLeish deplores the fact that almost every woman has been the victim of sexual assault at some time in her life.
Posted by: The Editors February 2009 in Black LambVolume 8, Number 2 — February 2010February 1st, 2010 In our cover article, Do inquiring minds want to know?, Terry Ross does some research and finds, surprisingly, that scientists are not in agreement on global warming, and that global warming may not even be occurring. Former prison inmate Dean Suess resigns himself to praying alone in Church without walls. In Ready for your closeup? Ed Goldberg ponders what lengths people will go to to achieve fame.
Posted by: The Editors January 2010 in Black LambVolume 8, Number 1 — January 2010January 1st, 2010 In our cover article for this Seventh Anniversary Issue, Terry Ross offers “suggestions for making the next few decades better than the last. In Got a light? Elizabeth Fournier tries hard to bond with her blind date over their common love for old matchbooks. Leslie Russell celebrates beekeeping in Light for the larder.
Posted by: The Editors December 2009 in Black LambVolume 7, Number 12 — December 2009December 1st, 2009 In the cover article of our December issue, New world, Gillian Wilce writes her last column as London Pride. In our page two feature, Facing facts, Dean Suess re-relegates himself, once an extremely accomplished person, to the ranks of the mediocre. According to Ian Archer, raising children involves A thousand deaths.
Posted by: The Editors November 2009 in Black LambVolume 7, Number 11 — November 2009November 1st, 2009 In the cover article of our November issue, Till death us do…, Lane Browning discovers details of a friend’s death through an autopsy report, obtained online at 50¢ a page. In our page two feature, Dean Suess shows that “trials have little or nothing to do with truth” in Criminal Injustice. The world’s still going to hell, but in a heat wave, Ed Goldberg finds himself in Apathy season.
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