Literary news (on the road.)

September 30, Downers Grove.

Last week a cook-house announcement appeared next to the day's menu:

Introducing
Kelly Miller Circus
Library
in the cookhouse
Derrick Pinnix librarian
Feel free to borrow books
contribute books
and
read, read, read!

I contributed a Philip Roth (Sabbath's Teather, all the sex talk and bored to death; evidently I must be missing a full intellectual section of the brain for I don't get Roth at all, it's all male egocentric, albeit literary masturbation as far as I'm concerned ) and Teacher Man, by Frank McCourt, of Angela's Ashes fame, a disappointing and bitter book after such a life-affirming debut novel.