What I Learned in Junior K
July 16, 2018
Other than deep respect for carpool done well, I owe Junior K a hard-won lesson: don’t ask the teacher about your kid. My kid is
Done For
July 5, 2018
Feels good to read. Especially this. From Colette Bryce’s “Selected Poems.”
The Universal Teat
October 2, 2017
If you have not read “Grapes of Wrath” and for some reason plan on doing so, stop reading this. If, on the other hand, you
Mono
October 1, 2017
The opening scene from “Now You’re the Enemy,” one of the most beautiful books of poetry I’ve read. Written by James Allen Hall.
Cosmic Communist Construction
September 17, 2017
Today I learned that Cosmic Communist Construction is a thing, or, at the very least, the very excellent title of a Taschen coffee table book.
The Handmaid, and the Hurricane’s, Tale
September 14, 2017
I didn’t pack a book for our flight out of Hurricane Irma’s grasp. What was the point? It wasn’t until the next day, before boarding a
Mercy Me
September 13, 2017
Scene from Roger Reeves’s “King Me,” which won the Whiting Award for poetry. The last line reminds me of the crowds of airport mouths agape
Slightly Off
September 3, 2017
“I try to dress in a way that is just slightly off, so the spectator, if he notices, will feel slightly bemused but not excluded,
Moving for Love
August 26, 2017
I don’t usually post twice in a day, but the lines in Ada Limón’s poem above are so beautiful and it is raining so hard
Landfall
August 26, 2017
I realize the picture above is bad. It was taken on a flight at the exact moment the pilot warned of turbulence from Hurricane Harvey,
The Atom World
August 20, 2017
There is a street in LA that has everything, at least, everything that my world needs. Juice, coffee, books, yoga, independent shopping, wine, cheese, parking.
Suburbanization in Reverse
August 18, 2017
Last week’s Economist cover featured the death of the internal combustion engine via the electric car. The magazine contemplates a bright future where the air
Even Worse
August 9, 2017
Out takes from Morgan Parker’s “There Are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé”
August 8, 2017
Crayola names are getting so good. Timberwolf. Tumbleweed. Goldenrod. Does this mean tumbleweed = amaranth? And magenta has no translation? All beautiful thoughts.
Image/Identity
August 3, 2017
About a week ago I visited the Georgia O’Keefe retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum: Living Modern. The exhibit not only centered around her well-known paintings
Nonnegotiable Time
July 23, 2017
Neko Case, a the vocalist in cult band “The New Pornographers,” is one of one hundred artists, entrepreneurs and writers interviewed for “In the Company
Digital Chips
July 5, 2017
During a dinner where cellphones made an unwelcome appearance, a good friend recommended Dave Egger’s “The Circle.” It’s a 1989-type cautionary tale about Big Internet
Steinbeck Uni
June 4, 2017
As with sea urchin, it is tempting to lap up good books in an unsighly way: devouring page after page, mouthfuls at a time, no
Why Steinbeck is Steinbeck
June 3, 2017
The passage above is found on page 22 of my edition of “Grapes of Wrath.” It usually takes a book 100 pages or so to
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