I just finished Les Standiford’s “Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Bitter Partnership that Transformed America.” Great book, particularly in it’s detailed description of the Homestead strike. It was a defining moment in the relationship between the two men.
“Even the greatest poets can’t express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances. The best way to deal with it is to fry eggs for refugees.”
— Andrei Codrescu, Romanian refugee and Baton Rouge resident, who has a house full of evacuees from New Orleans (“The entire poetry cadre of the French Quarter is in my house,” he says.).
Quoted in today’s New York Times Magazine
Playwright August Wilson has announced he has terminal liver cancer. I’ve seen a few of the plays in his Pittsburgh Cycle. Would love to see all 10 produced somewhere in tribute to him. His work is astounding.