June 8, 2016
What Life Is All About
Just finished Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Here are four things the sordid, elegant, contemplative, coke-infused pages of this wonderful book made me want to do: […]
September 2, 2014
The Wonderful Worlds of Borges
I recently came across an edited set of interviews with one of the true masters, Jorges Luis Borges. The book is Borges at Eighty: Conversations. I first encountered the Argentinian […]
April 12, 2010
Overhearing, and Underperforming, in English
Breaking news: I can eavesdrop again! After six months of almost everything I overheard being beautifully, transfixingly, and at-times frustratingly unintelligible, it’s a equal parts stimulating and distracting to be […]