Harper’s Magazine Presents: The Family Table with Rivka Galchen, Ben Marcus, and David Samuels To coincide with Thanksgiving, Harper’s Magazine…
Extra hour
What did you do with your extra hour?
Ghost Writers in the Sky
According to Wikipedia: Two of John F. Kennedy’s books were almost entirely ghostwritten. Former President Ronald Reagan also released a…
Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions
I heard about this book in a lecture given by Oliver Sacks about hallucinations: Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions;…
Break Every Rule, Part 1
Carole Maso’s Break Every Rule is a quiet, elegant book of essays. Every sentence here is a gem. Remember that…
What Do You Listen to While You Write/Read?
For me, nothing beats complete silence while writing or reading. I used to be able to listen to music, any…
Dino Buzzati’s “The Falling Girl”
A Summary: In “The Falling Girl” by Dino Buzzati a young girl commits suicide from the top of posh skyscraper…
A Kind of Mini-Primer on Flarf
In an otherwise disposable blog post “SPLENDOR, generation, and VALOR SETS” Nada Gordon weighs in on Flarf: “Let’s discuss this,…
H+ Magazine
HERE is an interesting site: “h+ covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing — and will change —…
Who the Fuck is “we” James A. Michener?
“Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don’t need you” James A. Michener. Yes, that’s true, and…