This is a collection of newspaper humor columns by Christopher Pyle. His point of view as a family man (father of three, husband of one) is reflected throughout. He also looks at popular culture... More > over the five years of material in this collection. From titters to giggles to guffaws all laughter styles are represented within these pages.< Less
This is a collection of newspaper humor columns by Christopher Pyle. His point of view as a family man (father of three, husband of one) is reflected throughout. He also looks at popular culture... More > over the five years of material in this collection. From titters to giggles to guffaws all laughter styles are represented within these pages.< Less
49 poems spanning a half century of the author's life. He is a native Minnesotan, former Jesuit priest, retired hospital chaplain, and university teacher in liberal arts. The poems reflect... More > interests in language, nature, family, travel, and spirituality.< Less
49 poems spanning a half century of the author's life. He is a native Minnesotan, former Jesuit priest, retired hospital chaplain, and university teacher in liberal arts. The poems reflect... More > interests in language, nature, family, travel, and spirituality.< Less
“Sunny spells – occasional showers”: this phrase from the Irish weather forecast perfectly describes the experiences of a German expatriate in Ireland. Surviving the surprises... More > occasioned by the house purchase and the solicitor, he meets an assortment of delightful neighbours, and begins to learn the ins and outs of dealing with local tradesmen. All in all, the often inventive Irish ways of dealing with life’s little exigencies are lovingly described, and delightfully illustrated.< Less
Occasional Jazz Conjectures is an exploration of jazz's edges and center - idiosyncratic reflections on the intersections of arts and culture; scenic detours connecting the dots between jazz and a... More > broader landscape of mid-century politics and modernism, social history, visual culture, popular entertainment, and the avant-garde.
Tim DuRoche's Conjectures are a bumper-car ride through jazz and the 20th century - careening from Bix Beiderbecke and Hart Crane to FT Marinetti, Frankie Laine and Henry Adams, Cecil Taylor and bebop, Abstract Expressionism, Cold War culture and the Beat era to meditations on the heroic impulse, love, death, revolution, and poetry.< Less
