Dave (a k a Captain LBJ) saw that I was plowing through Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” And despite the LBJ hostage situation, he sent me an out-of-print guide to Proust that’s proving invaluable: “A Reader’s Guide to Proust,” by Milton Hindus.
I made a run a Proust about 20 years ago, when I was doing my grad work. I sorta bounced off him. Just didn’t get it. But during a conversation a few years ago with Dave (LBJ’s father), he urged me to get a new translation and give it another shot.
I’m a bit ashamed to admit it, but I’ve never read anything by Scripps’ famed war correspondent, Ernie Pyle. Until I picked up a copy of “Brave Men,” a collection of his columns.