Lacunae Musing

The passing of Pat Conroy is yet another loss in my reading life.   He touched a lyrical nerve in that life, and the magnetism of his d...

This is the third “non- fiction” book I’ve read by Pat Conroy.   I put that in quotation marks as the line separating his novels and hi...

Richard Russo's Elsewhere is a painfully honest memoir.   It is lovingly detailed.   It appears that we have some shared family hi...