If you came of age in the 1980s, certain cultural icons and events are likely imprinted in your brain. Like MTV. And Nintendo, Sega, and Game Boy. The Bourne Identity. Michael Jackson. Yuppies. Back to the Future. Madonna. The Apple II. Pop and Hip-Hop. The Color Purple. The IBM PC. Reaganomics. Indiana Jones. Prince. St. Elmo’s Fire. The space shuttle. Fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Bonfire of the Vanities.
Eugene Nadelman is a novel of coming of age in the 1980s. It’s the story of a young teen, Eugene Nadelman, growing up in Philadelphia. The story begins with the celebration for Eugene’s bar mitzvah. He falls in love and has his first kiss. The romance continues until he goes to summer camp. He gets involved in an online game that turns into something of a duel.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Thursday Readings
“The Rapture,” poem by Thomas Traherne – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Poet Laura: Fables and Foxy Chickens – Sandra Fox Murphy at Tweetspeak Poetry.
“John Barleycorn,” poem by Robert Burns – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Hiawatha (excerpt) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.
In the Margins of Time: James Agee and Weldon Kees - Morton Hoi Jensen at Nimrod.
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