From the category archives:

Books

Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture

November 11, 2011

I read The Last Lecture quickly, huddled in the tiny, drafty studio apartment that I lived in for six months in Manhattan’s Koreatown following the end of a relationship for which I’d given up a great 1 BR on the Lower East Side. I was newly single, sleeping on the extra long twin bed that [...]

Read the full article →

Are Hardcover Book Prices Going Up?

October 24, 2011

Have hardcover book prices been steadily increasing over the past two years?

Read the full article →

The Plague by Albert Camus

September 18, 2011

Fails the Bechdel test / Bloviations writ large / Not bad plane reading

Read the full article →

I Love Some Terra Firma In My Readings

August 29, 2011

Pleasing moments but perhaps not enough in Maxine Hong Kingston’s prose poem I Love A Broad Margin To My Life.

Read the full article →

Metered-Out Twee

June 11, 2011

Vintage-y office supplies that aren’t too precious

Read the full article →

Flannery O’Connor: Wise Blood

June 4, 2011

Do we become man-struggling-with-faith Hazel Motes while reading Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood?

Read the full article →

Bernard Shaw: On the Prospects of Christianity

November 4, 2010

The preface to Bernard Shaw’s Androcles and the Lion is a recommended read for anyone not terribly familiar with the Bible. Shaw’s exegesis is funny, dry, and sociohistorically illuminating — and still relevant today. Plus, the play’s pretty funny, too.

Read the full article →