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JUNE 2004

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.)

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