October 3, 2006
C??zanne
Reading James Wood on C??zanne (via Maud Newton), I felt very much like a dog eagerly awaiting a treat from the dinnertable and getting none. Merleau-Ponty has written quite eloquently […]
October 3, 2006
Short Takes
She must be one of the most famous dead women alive. “Accepting a six figure deal is one of the biggest career mistakes a first time author can make.” I […]
October 2, 2006
Dude, really: Milton?!
I’m nearly speechless. I wish I could tell you that I had found this story on my own. Alas, The Chronicle of Higher Education scooped me: Development Hell: Variety informs […]
October 2, 2006
Short Takes
If Orr doesn’t know that baseball is Baseball, he’s obviously never read Roger Angell in the New Yorker or George Vescey on the Mets or Jeff Bryant after a Braves […]
September 30, 2006
Short Takes
When Albom came to the Detroit Free Press in 1985, at age 27, he was already deeply felt. In his inaugural column, he declared he would examine “a side of […]
September 29, 2006
Short Takes
Ok, I know everyone’s over Snakes on a Plane, but how about Serpentes on a Shippe? My major conclusion at that point in my development was therefore that, if I […]
September 28, 2006
Short Takes
I think it was P.G. Wodehouse who observed that the English strike Americans as funny when they are just being English. Similarly, philosophers strike the laity as funny when they […]
September 28, 2006
On Writing 2
Writing is elsewhere. It is an act of displacement. Here becomes there. The inscription separates. As Edmund Spenser writes at the beginning of Sonnet 75 in Amoretti, “One day I […]
September 27, 2006
Short Takes
Chavez’s comments on the death of Chomsky a little suspect. I’m really sorry about yet another Shakespeare link, but not sorry enough to not include it. Our First Lady likes […]
September 26, 2006
The Benefits of Riding the Subway
Every morning, I come into Manhattan from Brooklyn on the R. And one of those lovely side benefits of moving to the city that no one told me about is […]
September 26, 2006
Short Takes
Murakami takes home his second Frank O’Connor Short Story award for his most recent collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (via the Book Depository) Chalk one point up for the experimentalists: […]
September 25, 2006
Short Takes
I wouldn’t mind being insulted by David Bowie though I think Tom Waits would probably be more inventive (and intimidating). Via Splinters. A review site (updated monthly) for all you […]