Bob Dylan has spent more than five decades avoiding his popularly anointed role as the voice of a generation. But the old song and dance man, who marks six dozen years in May, still totes a sack full of worthy messages.
Film depictions of the literary masterpiece "The Great Gatsby" have fallen short in the past, however Baz Luhrmann's version has raised the bar.
The cock doth crow,
Tra la, tra lay
Announcing the dawn of Christmas Day –
And the fact that my hair has just gone away!
Tra la, Tra la Tra lay!
Alas, there's no telling.
Who made off with my thatch,
As the agile old thief
I could plainly not catch.
No shutters torn open.
And nary a sash.
The motive's quite hazy,
What's the pathway to cash?
I'm at my wit's end.
I just sit here and stare.
Wondering "Where's the old prof
With the wild mane of hair?"
The cock doth crow,
Tra la, tra lay
Announcing the dawn of Christmas Day –
And the fact that my hair has just gone away!
Tra la, Tra la Tra lay!
Alas, there's no telling.
Who made off with my thatch,
As the agile old thief
I could plainly not catch.
No shutters torn open.
And nary a sash.
The motive's quite hazy,
What's the pathway to cash?
I'm at my wit's end.
I just sit here and stare.
Wondering "Where's the old prof
With the wild mane of hair?"
Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005. But 24 years earlier, “Housekeeping,” her first novel, was published. Written in beautiful, haunting prose with no words wasted, "Housekeeping" follows two young sisters as they change custodial hands and come to terms as they come of age.
