Category Archives: 19th Century Modern

A Thumbs-Up for Englander’s Most Recent Collection of Short Stories

Posted on July 15, 2012 by commart

Englander, Nathan.  What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. Following my Bar Mitzvah, I journeyed off forty years in the American Wildness. America affords every man this much: a smorgasbord of employments … Continue reading →

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Toward Minimalism

Posted on July 13, 2012 by commart

I’ve just spent a lifetime verbose, steeped in language and spewing back the same on the web. What if — and I feel this more than ask — I now dropped the words, providing signal only for curiosity, a noun … Continue reading →

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19th Century Modern

Posted on July 8, 2012 by commart

“Commart” (“commart”) has had a bit of a life online dating back to about 1995. Before then, my fellow old codgers may remember, we had dial-up bulletin boards and, for a while, America Online helping us signal through our physical … Continue reading →

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