Pick Up
If I could write one book as good as Charles Willeford’s Pick Up I’d put down my pen and feel fulfilled. I could retire to my garden and family or buy an...
Read MoreNow that I’ve finished Endangered Species I can begin to read a little fiction again. Since my early twenties I’ve avoided fiction while writing stories...
Read More       On the way to the car I passed McSorley’s. I could’ve let it slide. Nothing would’ve pleased me more in fact, except maybe an ice cream...
Read More“PA UBU.–Hornstrumpet! We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that...
Read MoreThis passage is from Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest. The novel is a Prussian novel of adultery. It was one of Thomas Mann’s favorites (there is a minor...
Read MoreEvery now and again an upstart crow breaks free from the ivory tower and lands on the lawns of popular nonfiction. The usual fate for such books is to appear on coffee...
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