October 22, 2015
1,369 Light Bulbs, or, How to Write in a Basement
Ralph Ellison wrote the first page of Invisible Man while staying at a friend’s farm in Waitsfield, Vermont. He had been to the farm before, and upon his first visit […]
October 31, 2014
Human Existence
Toward the beginning of the recent sci-fi film Lucy, Morgan Freeman gives an impassioned faux-scientific speech to assembled neurology experts. He posits what might happen if humans could use the […]