Brenda Cronin
Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal
scribbler, The Wall Street Journal; novelist, Gracious Living Without Servants
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Brenda Cronin
Paul VI was bishop of Rome when I was born. The next pontiff will be my sixth. Queen Elizabeth II reigned while 15 British prime ministers came and went. I count my life by popes, and I’m about to see my sixth. My first was Paul VI (1963-78), who seemed the forever pontiff as he reigned throughout my childhood. I knew very little of him beyond hearing his name at Mass and at home. He might as well have been a figure from the Crusades, as remote and enduring as a statue.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Brenda Cronin
Salvador Dalí’s wife played many roles: muse, model, defender, business manager and artistic collaborator. “Gala is the only person I listen to,” Salvador Dalí once wrote of his wife, in a letter to a friend. “She alone can say what my future will be.”Gala Dalí moves onto center stage in Michèle Gerber Klein’s biography “Surreal.” The diminutive Russian was far more than a muse and manager, Ms. Klein writes.
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2 months ago |
wsj.com | Brenda Cronin
“Our Dumb Century” is a compendium of front pages from the Onion, a satirical newspaper. The faux archive of state-the-obvious “articles” (from “Man With Limbs Employed by Rail-Road” and “Man Ventures Outside Hatless” to “Drugs Win Drug War”) was published in 1999. Ever since, we’ve only become dumber. The dumbification accelerated, like many other bad things, on the wings of social media.
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Oct 25, 2024 |
wsj.com | Brenda Cronin
Just as Christmas became the holiday season, Election Day has given way to voting season. In my Florida county, early voting began Monday and runs through Nov. 3, two days before Election Day. Early voting is the newest wrinkle in fulfilling my civic duty. Things began in underwhelming fashion when I filled out my first absentee ballot a few decades ago. Back then, I lived in the District of Columbia (where I went to college) but voted in Connecticut (where I grew up).
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Oct 11, 2024 |
wsj.com | Brenda Cronin
‘James,” “Held,” “Orbital.” The name of a celebrity’s newborn? No, those are the one-word titles of novels, all nominees for the Booker literary prize. The other three contenders are the two-word “Creation Lake” and “The Safekeep” and the hefty three-worder “Stone Yard Devotional.”Succinct titles aren’t only for books.
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