Gilbert Cruz

What are we all giving Granny?

I have a recommendation.

These are two...

books that I've grown to love over the past many years it's a two book set although you can buy each of them separately these are Stephen Sondheim's books Finishing the Hat and Look I Made a Hat which are collections of the lyrics for every Stephen Sondheim musical annotated introduced by Stephen Sondheim if you've ever listened to one of his musicals you know how clever he is and it's just a joy to not only see the lyrics written down but

Listen to the cast recordings while you're reading the lyrics, but also have him tell you why he wrote this, how he wrote it, the different iterations of the rhymes and the rhyme schemes that he went through.

I feel like these are two books that you actually could read again and again over the years and find so much joy.

Speaking of dads, let's talk about books for dads.

And I think we should start with New Dads.

I have one recommendation for this new dad who probably isn't cool because any new dad is just like new moms just sort of hanging on for dear life.

I didn't really understand until recently how dads are obsessed with the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

I read a book because it's the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald called The Gales of November by a man named John U. Bacon.

It tells the whole story of this tragedy that happened in 1975 on Lake Superior that was immortalized in a song by Gordon Lightfoot called

And I have not, over the past few weeks, run into a man who was not interested in talking about the Edmund Fitzgerald.

I don't know what it is.

It's in the genes.

It's so sad.

I do not know what happened, so please do not tell me.

You're giving me a sad face.

So is it as sad as the Edmund Fitzgerald?

Okay.