Wouldn’t it take an outsider to aptly critique the American scene, the American people, the American culture? Hugh Kenner, a…
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Midnight in Paris (and other recent Woody Allens)
[Last weekend, en route to Madagascar, Jeremy M. Davies swung by my Chicago atelier to hear my neighbor perform Mahler’s…
Report from the middle of The Recognitions
(First post on The Recognitions) In the middle of this wonderful book, many characters are running around trying to one…
Summer? Reading
Sure, I understand summer is when kids and teachers have months-worth of vacation time. When people of means take trips…
Guest Post, by Adam Robinson: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
“I sat in the chair and looked at the floor and prayed for Catherine.” –From Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to…