11/22/63 on Of Mice and Men: “Also known as Lennie Small in George Amberson’s okay-for- high-school adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.”
11/22/63 on Twelve Angry Men: “I picked Twelve Angry Men for the fall play, accidentally on purpose neglecting to inform the Samuel French Company that I intended to retitle our version The Jury, so I could cast some girls.”
11/22/63 on The Catcher in the Rye: “My best day as a sub came at West Sarasota High, after I’d told an American Lit class the basic story of The Catcher in the Rye (a book which was not, of course, allowed in the school library and would have been confiscated if brought into those sacred halls by a student) and then encouraged them to talk a”
11/22/63 on A Reliable Wife: “I’d read a book called A Reliable Wife not too long before leaving on the world’s strangest trip, and as I climbed into bed, a line from the novel crossed my mind: “He had lost the habit of romance.””
11/22/63 on Bleak House: “I spent my days there, cooking her meals, working in her little garden (which would sicken but not quite die in another hot central Texas summer), and reading Bleak House to her.”
11/22/63 on Last Exit to Brooklyn: “Beat you with a broomhandle?” There was another way a broomhandle could be used—I’d read Last Exit to Brooklyn—but apparently he hadn’t done that.”
11/22/63 on Jude the Obscure: “Found myself listening to Sadie as she read to me, first Jude the Obscure, then Tess of the D’Urbervilles.”
11/22/63 on Tess of the d'Urbervilles: “Found myself listening to Sadie as she read to me, first Jude the Obscure, then Tess of the D’Urbervilles.”
11/22/63 on The Group: “We read books sitting side by side on her couch, with her fan blowing back our hair—The Group for her, Jude the Obscure for me.”