Stuff I’ve been reading (nicked from Nick)
January 2009 Books read: Atonement — Ian McEwan How Fiction Works — James Wood Taming a Sea-Horse — Robert B. Parker Bloody Confused! — Chuck Culpepper Shakespeare Wrote for Money […]
January 2009 Books read: Atonement — Ian McEwan How Fiction Works — James Wood Taming a Sea-Horse — Robert B. Parker Bloody Confused! — Chuck Culpepper Shakespeare Wrote for Money […]
We watched the inauguration today with some of our new international friends, and one of them surprised us all — he had never heard of Aretha Franklin. It was a […]
As my Nieman buddy Ernie Suggs said afterward, “One of those naked people will be president one day.” Last night at midnight was the annual Harvard tradition called Primal Scream, […]
We woke up this morning to about 6 inches of snow on the ground and more coming down. This was on top of all the unmelted snow that hardened into […]
One of the gifts I got Alix for Christmas was this book “1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.” (She gave me a subtle hint about this gift, something […]
Numbers have their own personalities, and I’ve always liked 45. Somewhere back home I still have a stash of old 45-rpm singles — some Beatles an old English teacher gave […]