August 27, 2014
Mid-Morning of the Planet of the Selfies
A few weeks ago I started flagging stories about selfies. I’m not sure why. I think I wanted to make the late-to-the-party claim that the selfie may be the emblem […]
June 20, 2012
Springsteen, Mercury, and A Possible Binary
At June’s start Marc Dolan’s Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock N Roll was released by Norton, and at July’s start Lesley-Ann Jones’s Mercury, a biography of Freddie Mercury, […]
July 4, 2010
Ain’t That America
Today marks the 155th anniversary of the publication of Leaves of Grass. The 36-year-old Whitman had hoped to write a “new American Bible,” a work that you, the reader, might […]