The Worst Team Money Could Buy

A Review of The Homecoming Party by Carmine Abate

Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar (New York, NY: Europa Editions, 2010) There’s a magnet on my refrigerator that pictures two sweet-faced, pony-tailed girls, perhaps sisters, grinning in a knowing way that suggests they’re sharing a private joke. Beneath the image … Continued

Sweet William

The book on gardens is inconclusive, in the margin maintains that A battle rages concerning the origin of the plant’s name: Saint William Of York versus Prince William Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland versus William the Conqueror. I have my … Continued