My new novel. It starts with the award-winning, BBC broadcast prologue, "The Orphan and the Mob", and continues with Jude's quest for True Love in Tipperary, Galway, the Aran Islands, and Dublin... Love, death, arson, philosophy, and sex. Starring Jude, an orphan who looks the spit of Leonardo DiCaprio. Except for having two penises. Which makes True Love... complicated.
My first novel, of which I am very fond. The adventures of teenage twin sisters Juno & Juliet, in their first year away from home. Life, love and literature, in Galway and Tipperary.
Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 11:01AM Well, Arthur Schlesinger, the great liberal American historian, has died. Heart attack in a restaurant at the age of 89, not a bad way to go. If you are interested, here's a proper, old-fashioned, sprawling, comprehensive, New York Times obituary.
And if you're only a little bit interested, here's a bite-sized chunk from it:
'In 1949, Mr. Schlesinger solidified his position as the spokesman for postwar liberalism with his book “The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom.” Inspired by the Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, he argued that pragmatic, reform-minded liberalism, limited in scope, was the best that man could hope for politically.
“Problems will always torment us,” he wrote, “because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution."'
Under the JFK administration , one of his jobs was to take Jackie Kennedy to the movies. What a great life.
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