the cassandra pages: Book List

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My professional writer's site, with biographical info; links to selected essays and other published writing; reviews and comments; contact information.
My biography of Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, published by Soft Skull Press in June 2006

Who was Cassandra?

In the Iliad, she is described as the loveliest of the daughters of Priam (King of Troy), and gifted with prophecy. The god Apollo loved her, but she spurned him. As a punishment, he decreed that no one would ever believe her. So when she told her fellow Trojans that the Greeks were hiding inside the wooden horse...well, you know what happened.

2008

Division of the Spoils, Paul Scott (Raj Quartet #4)

Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, Chogyam Trungpa

Dragon Thunder: My Life With Chogyam Trungpa, Diana Mukpo

Poems of Paul Celan

Les Aurores Montreales, Monique Proulx

The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald

Essays on The Iliad, Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff

War Music, Christopher Logue

Every Day is for the Thief, Teju Cole

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini

The Aesthetics of Resistance, Peter Weiss

Un Grain de Sagesse, Arnaud Desjardins

The Places that Scare You, Pema Chodron

Amsterdam, Ian McEwan

Daughter of Persia, Sattareh Farman Farmaian

The Great Enigma, New Collected Poems, Tomas Transtromer

Pour une mort sans peur, Arnaud Desjardins

I and Thou, Martin Buber

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