Logos Bookstore’s Recommendations
by H. Harris Healy, III, President, Logos Bookstore
Logos Bookstore
1575 York Avenue (Between 83rd And 84th Sts.)
New York, New York 10028
(212) 517-7292, Fax (212) 517-7197
WWW.NYCLOGOS.CITYSEARCH.COM
It is June, graduations
are going on, Father’s
Day is approaching and it is the beginning of summer. Here
at Logos there are graduation cards and Father’s Day
cards and gifts appropriate for these occasions, as well
as Confirmation and First Communion cards, bibles and gifts
appropriate for those occasions, and Wedding and Engagement
cards and gifts for those occasions as well.
One book that stands
out well as a Father’s
Day or graduation gift is Writing About Your Life: A Journey
into the Past by William Zinsser, author of On Writing
Well, a modern classic
on how to write well. With Writing About Your Life, Zinsser
has presented a wonderful memoir of his life and instructions
to how the reader can write an interesting memoir, too.
And what a life it has been. As a youngster, he
started on his lifetime passion for baseball, following the
New York Giants of Mel Ott, Bill Terry, and Carl Hubbell, while
playing for endless hours with friends a mechanical baseball
game, he describes in detail in the book and also in an Atlantic
Monthly article, Field Of Tin.
As a result of that article, he is reunited with this mechanical
baseball game which he now enjoys playing with a grandson.
Along the way, he wrote a baseball book called Spring
Training about the spring
training season, fer realized that Zinsser was never going
to learn to read music well nor memorize pieces well by sight
reading. So she taught him chords and harmonies to play with
the melodies he picked up by ear. In his fifties while working
for Yocusing on one team, the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Another passion of his, the piano, became that
way when his childhood piano teachale University, he met the
jazz pianist, Dwike Mitchell of the Mitchell-Ruff duo, who
taught him more tricks of the trade. By his late sixties onwards,
Zinsser was playing in public.
Zinsser’s life
has been a set of changes with gusto from Deerfield Academy
to Princeton to World War II North Africa and Italy, to the
New York Herald Tribune as drama and movie critic, to freelance
writing, to Yale University as writing teacher and college
master, to The Book-of-the-Month Club to freelance writing,
again. In his free time he has had exotic trips around the
world while raising a family with his wife. Now when most
people his age are retired, he is a professional piano player
and still writing. Writing About Your Life is
a wonderful call to adventure, one of the written page and
imagination of what one’s life can be. Happy Father’s
Day!#
Upcoming
Events At Logos
Wednesday, June 2, 2004 at
7 P.M., KYTV Reading Group will discuss Life Of Pi by
Yann Martell.
Monday June 14, 2004 at
7 P.M., Richard Curtis of the Richard Curtis Literary Agency,
will discuss Genesis 40-54 in the ongoing, Love Vows,
A Connnection: The Marriage Of A People to their God, series
for the Sacred Texts Discussion Group
Wednesday, July 7, 2004 at
7 P.M., KYTV Reading Group will discuss Reading Lolita
In Teheran, by Azar Nafisi
Transit:
4, 5 or 6 Lexington Avenue Subway to 86th St., M86 Bus (86th
St.), M79 Bus (79th St.), M31 Bus (York Ave.), M15 Bus (1st & 2nd
Aves.)
