Benjamin Roesch

Author: Benjamin

  • Post #111: J to the D

    Pardon me while I majorly geek out for a second. But, holy crap, am I excited. It seemed like a foregone conclusion that eventually we’d get word of what the hell J.D. Salinger had been writing and putting in a safe all those years. I mean, of course there were…

  • Post #110: The Beginning of the End (I hope)

    Dear Charles, Today, I begin what I hope will be the final stage in the editing and re-writing of my novel in progress Returning. That is, until I decide I need to, or am asked to, re-write it again. The summer has seen far more massive structural and character changes to…

  • Post #109: Being There

    I ventured up to Montreal last week to catch the third round of the Roger’s Cup tennis tournament. The Roger’s Cup is part of the Emirates Airlines U.S. Open Series and an ATP Masters 1000 tournament, which basically is a fancy way of saying that it’s a big time event…

  • Post #108: Good Medicine From the News Feed

    My relationship to Facebook is that of a guy who got convinced to go to a party he’s now having trouble fitting in at, but one he’s still pretty glad he came to anyway . I’m not a constant status updater or gobbler of my friends’ every whim and posting,…

  • Post #107: Saying Goodbye to God

    Dear Charles, Sorry I haven’t been in touch in quite some time, but it was great to hear from you recently. Funny you should ask about Returning, my novel in progress, because after a very busy teaching year this past year, during which my brain was simply stretched in too…

  • Post #106: Obama and Trayvon

    I doubt I’m alone in wishing that Barack Obama would be more vocal about a lot of things. Environmental activism, for one. But an issue that Obama is uniquely suited to address, as our first African-American president, is that of race in this country. Not only race and racism broadly,…

  • Post #105: Mind Your Own Damn…

    So, I’m on an airplane the other day, flying with my two small sons, and the seating arrangement was unfavorable to say the least. My wife ended up in the back of the plane, the kids were together closer to the front, and I ended up directly in front of…

  • Post #104: One Man Book Club: The Family Fang

    At the insistent urges and blasting emotional hornpipe of my beloved, but total pain in the ass, intern, Zane Kai, we’re doing another round of One Man Book Club. Zane felt that our first foray into the scene with our multi-part take on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was a…

  • Post #103: A Not Even Close to Great Movie I Think You Should Watch Anyway

     I happen to love Entourage and have long had a serious man-crush on its doe eyed lead, Adrian Grenier, who plays superstar actor Vincent Chase with what’s either an understated grace, or a complete lack of acting chops that comes across as natural. Tough to tell. Anyway, I was doing…

  • Post #102: How Far Can We Really Take This?

    I thought I’d reached the point where I’d finally grown numb to the constant barrage of product placement that saturates and infests my viewing life. From Adam Levine’s Starbuck’s cup to the Dell screens on VEEP to the kick you in the balls with it stuff on shows like Top…