Tam Hoang and the Reader
What English means to me, I teach war, UCSD literature students, Linda Vista, American Christmas, outlier students
Tam Hoang 8:30 a.m., Aug. 25
Tim Brookes
Tim Brookes, born in England, living in Vermont, wrote for the Reader in the late 1990s and 2000s.
Articles by Tim Brookes
Tim Brookes and the Reader
Brits living in San Diego, I-5 commuters, thinking man's plumber, Dale Akiki memory wars
Tim Brookes, born and raised in England, living in Vermont, founded Writers Without Borders and the Endangered Alphabets Project. Brookes has been an essayist for NPR. He wrote for the Reader in the 1990s and ...
Reader writers tell of golden wedding moments and minor disasters
Here comes the bride
At Times It Was Like Shared Music, at Times Like a Skin Graft or Root Canal — Stephen Dobyns I do at a coffin sale — Dorothy Stewart A Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Cake ...
A Ben & Jerry's ice cream cake comes to mind
Happy weddings are all alike; every unhappy wedding is unhappy in its own way. I've been married three times. My first and third were both happy, and startlingly alike. Both took place within a few ...
Guitar: An American Life
Guitar: An American Life by Tim Brookes. Grove Atlantic Press; May 2005; 339 pages; $24. Audio book version Blackstone Audio. FROM THE DUST JACKET: "Shortly before his 50th birthday, baggage handlers destroyed Tim Brookes's guitar, ...
The English ex-pats living in San Diego
Limeys in a state of grace
You don’t go to a pub to meet new people: you go to a pub to meet people you already know — in a sense, to avoid people. The pub allows us to be sociable without taking risks;
Problems with the Dale Akiki-Faith Chapel case
The memory wars
Here are two stories about memory: When Carol Hopkins visited New York as a young woman, her best friend said to her, "Whenever you get into a cab, look at the license number. That way, ...
Sledd In the canyon of envy
We started at Rio’s on West Point Loma Boulevard
The first thing Dino DeLuke does when I ask him about his heavy metal/alter-native hard rock band Sledd — after making sure that I know the band is in the studio recording a CD and ...
San Diego's Steve Garber – a thinking man's plumber
Never in the history of the world has man moved such volumes of water such distances
The Romans were as efficient at plumbing as they were at building roads, bringing water from the hills into Rome, and used an astonishing 300 gallons per person per day, more than twice what even Californians use.
San Diego commute – by bicycle, trolley, car pool, van pool, Coaster, and alone in car
The freeway is nobody's home
The first curious thing about commuting by car is that in some ways it is the exact opposite of travel in general. When we travel we do so with our eyes and ears open, asking ...
