Wonderful writing, as usual. I'm so glad you understand the JFK assassination aright. I don't know whether you're interested in the never ending inquest into what happened that day, which was exactly what it seemed ( lone bastard with a gun and an opportunity ), but the best delineation of Oswald's psyche I know of is Jean Davison's out of print book, Oswald's Game.
I wrote to the nyrb people, urging them to bring it back into print, which probably reduces any chance that they might.
Thank you, Bobby! At Lydwine HQ, there's very little we find more interesting than November 22, 1963, so we'll certainly be on the lookout for a copy of the Davison book. Top two favorites in the canon would probably be Don DeLillo's "Libra" and Jean Stafford's "A Mother in History". The latter especially underscores a point you've made before in these comments - that Texas in those days was just absolutely batsh*t crazy. It helps put everything in perspective, knowing that.
Houston didn't have an ambulance service until 1972. Before, funeral homes took the calls, which might be seen by “reformer” types as a conflict of interest.
Once again Brian, so compassionately written, tying the stories of those as close as a daughter with those as far away as a man at the bar to tell a story of your own which inspires us to keep including those close and those far away within our own stories.
“Some people have no respect for ghosts” - what a poetic wise heart your daughter has. She’s right.
Wonderful writing, as usual. I'm so glad you understand the JFK assassination aright. I don't know whether you're interested in the never ending inquest into what happened that day, which was exactly what it seemed ( lone bastard with a gun and an opportunity ), but the best delineation of Oswald's psyche I know of is Jean Davison's out of print book, Oswald's Game.
I wrote to the nyrb people, urging them to bring it back into print, which probably reduces any chance that they might.
Thank you, Bobby! At Lydwine HQ, there's very little we find more interesting than November 22, 1963, so we'll certainly be on the lookout for a copy of the Davison book. Top two favorites in the canon would probably be Don DeLillo's "Libra" and Jean Stafford's "A Mother in History". The latter especially underscores a point you've made before in these comments - that Texas in those days was just absolutely batsh*t crazy. It helps put everything in perspective, knowing that.
Houston didn't have an ambulance service until 1972. Before, funeral homes took the calls, which might be seen by “reformer” types as a conflict of interest.
Once again Brian, so compassionately written, tying the stories of those as close as a daughter with those as far away as a man at the bar to tell a story of your own which inspires us to keep including those close and those far away within our own stories.