Doctor, do you understand what I was up against ? My wang was all I really had that I could call my own ...
The frank revelations of his shame and humiliation told by Alexander Portnoy — a sexually-obsessed,
mother-fixated bachelor — told to his psychoanalyst, Dr Spielvogel, leave no stone unturned ...
This week's book is Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth and we'll be meeting at Ye Olde Cocke on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.
Aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, joins the America First party. After making a surprise appearance on the last night of the 1940 Republican National Convention, he is nominated as the Republican Party's candidate for President. Although criticized from the left, and hated by most Jewish-Americans, Lindbergh musters a strong tide of popular support from the South and Midwest, and wins the election over incumbent president Franklin D. Roosevelt in a landslide under the slogan ‘Vote for Lindbergh, or vote for war’. Increasingly, some Americans feel like outsiders in American society ...
This week's book is Philip Roth's The Plot Against America and we'll be meeting at The Fletcher Moss on William Street in Didsbury.