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...both the writer (Vance) and artist (Burr), who never worked together again and neither of whom went on to produce much of anything even remotely as interesting. [Update: they are now working on a sequel, I am told.] Kings originates from Vance's days as a playwright of Depression-era, ash-can style dramas. Set in the early 1930s, the book follows the adventures of the 12-year-old Freddie Bloch, a working-class kid forced by circumstances to hit the railroad tracks of America, and enter the world of the destitute and homeless. Using convincing period detail and mixing...
...East. Freddie, the slightly dreamy younger of two brothers whose mother has died, sells his father's used liquor bottles to fund his escapes to the movies. It may surprise some readers to discover Freddie is Jewish when plans for his Bar Mitzvah are mentioned: Unlike more familiar Depression-era stories of being Jewish in America, where characters struggle with assimilation in an urban ghetto, Kings tells a less common story. Freddie seems totally integrated into his small town, his Jewish identity becoming even less important when his father vanishes and his brother gets caught stealing for grocery money. Once...
...Brunnig knocked in Wilson with an opposite-field rope.“All you really need is someone to be like, ‘Hey, this guy’s hittable,’” said Wilson of Northeastern hurler Trevor Smith, whose sparkling 2.12 ERA was ruined by four earned runs in 4 1/3 innings. “And then everyone starts to hit.”Brunnig, who also executed a textbook suicide squeeze in the third inning, notched his seventh RBI of the season in just his 35th at-bat.Brunnig’s first three...
...elevation of Ratzinger, who was probably the best-known cardinal ever to become Pope, has offered a particularly dramatic transformation. Our era of 24-hour information and instant analysis has no doubt helped. Stepping into the papacy, Benedict quickly erased the stereotypes surrounding him from the quarter-century he spent overseeing orthodoxy for John Paul. Even in the first weeks, it was clear that he was not a chilly and unbending bureaucrat, but a basically gentle man with excellent listening skills and a gift with words. He has welcomed his longtime theological nemesis Hans K?ng for a long chat...
...declined to comment. Though he's lived in California since 1982, he's not a U.S. citizen and has no official protection. And while Washington once tacitly supported anti-Communist outfits like Free Vietnam, the group's past acts of sabotage became an embarrassment in the post-9/11 era. Chanh left the movement last year to head the United States International Mission, a nonprofit organization that helps victims of human trafficking. But if South Korea decides to extradite him, his past may land him in a Vietnamese jail...