by Think In The Morning | May 22, 2020 | Words |
It is the autumn of 1918 and a world war and an influenza epidemic rage outside the isolated utopian logging community of Commonwealth, Wash. In an eerily familiar climate of fear, rumor and patriotic hysteria, the town enacts a strict quarantine, posting guards at...
by Think In The Morning | May 18, 2020 | Sea Gull |
In the 1970s and 80s the Sea Gull Cellar Bar was famous for many things and especially the live jazz performances on Thursday nights and Sunday afternoons. Thanks to Judy Mayhan we are able to present three live recordings from those times featuring Judy...
by Think In The Morning | May 17, 2020 | Words |
Think in the Morning continues our look into the literary memories of the 1918 Pandemic. Our first read was Pale Horse, Pale Rider. Katherine Anne Porter gave us an unforgettable memory of the impact of the Spanish flu and the Great War on a young couple whose paths...
by Think In The Morning | May 14, 2020 | Words |
Previously on Think in the MorningPale Horse, Pale Rider: Katherine Anne Porter’s Classic Story of the 1918 PandemicWilliam Maxwell’s They Came Like SwallowsThe 1918 Pandemic And Willa Cather’s One Of Ours Then, under the terrible light which fell directly and...
by Think In The Morning | May 11, 2020 | Words |
Midwest Book Review just published an abridged version of our book review on Alice Combs’ The Lady With Balls. The full review is below. I don’t want a mirror telling me I’m the fairest in all the land; I want another intelligent adult’s honest opinion. Alice...
