January 13,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Wednesday, January 24 at 7pm: New York Times best-selling author–and Ridgewood resident– Ben Greenman discusses the ins and outs of collaboration and telling other people’s life stories. Info, contact Roberta, RPanjwani@ridgewoodlibrary.org
Ben Greenman is a novelist and magazine journalist who has written fiction and non-fiction books, as well as many collaborations with pop-music artists like Questlove, George Clinton, Brian Wilson, Gene Simmons, and others. From 2000 to 2014, he was an editor at The New Yorker.
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I really enjoyed Ben Greenwood’s review of Make Rusia Great Again in the July 5 NYT Book Review. It inspired this poem:
DELIVERANCE BY IRREVERENCE
The people who trash all the Never Trumpers,
in contrast with them, being Ever Trumpers,
do this since he delivered them deliverance
from Hillary by sailing down Irriverence,
he river that’s so wild it never has been tamed,
and so irriverent it never feels ashamed.
It is a river that is fed by all the streams
of Trump’s unconsciousness, as well as Putin’s dreams,
To him the Ever Trumpers are conciliatory
because he is of the most hated Hillary tree
the poisoned fruit, just like apple that Snow White
once ate and slept for years, her days all turned to night.
Some consider Trump to be nefarious,
but actually he merely is hilarious.
best
Gershon Hepner MD
1561 Reeves Street
LA CA 90035