Author: Christopher Schroeder
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Encore or Expected?
This week is my first week of retirement, and I’ve been wondering for the last nine months or so what comes next. I certainly understand the appeal of a leisure life. I also believe that I have ten or more potentially productive years. Some suggest that an inevitable professional decline starts sooner than most think…
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More Like a Summer Slurpee
NPR critic Maureen Corrigan suggests that El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott (2025) is one of the better summer suspense novels, but I think it barely qualifies as a beach read. Harper, the youngest of three Bishop sisters, is invited by her older sisters Pam and Deb to join a female financial club that seems…
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Sorry Yet Not
Sorry, Baby takes its title from a comment at its end by Agnes, its protagonist and a full-time college English instructor who had been sexually assaulted when she was a graduate student at the same institution. This movie is organized by chapters as a series of flashbacks interspersed with Agnes’s struggle to overcome the effects…