June 28, 2009
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Happy Birthday, Mel Brooks:
Sunday Jews
by Hortense Calisher*"Sunday Jews ... [2002] explores issues of identity in an eclectic family, which includes an art expert, an atheistic rabbi, an anthropologist, and an agnostic Irish Catholic." --Encyclopaedia Britannica
One definition
of "uh"--Strange Bedfellows:
For some background,
see Jefferson's Birthday.* Pictured next to John Updike
in "Multimedia" at the top of
today's NY Times obituaries
(pdf, 1 megabyte).