For every abandoned business, store, school, or church in the city, a new one has been built in the suburbs.
January 16th, 2012
His last words to me as he opened the door and stepped into the hallway were: "Feel free to use any of this in the script."
January 15th, 2012
I decided to get high.
January 15th, 2012
It's no wonder that we are often confused by impostors, delighted by sock puppets, and relieved — most of us, anyway — that we remain singular.
January 14th, 2012
Just as the attacks themselves had little to do with America, so did America play little role in the defeat of al-Qa'ida's ideology.
January 9th, 2012
A reminiscence of his mentor, writing instructor, and friend.
January 7th, 2012
On literary sociality and the romance between William Faulkner and Joan Williams.
January 6th, 2012
He missed the first class. In fact, he missed the first three.
January 6th, 2012
I was inchoate and jelly-like in graduate school (kind of like a slime mold), but Cavell was kind to me anyway.
January 5th, 2012
While a student of his I often felt the tectonic plates of my own opinions and tightly-held ideas loosen or shift.
January 5th, 2012
On the ghost of Graham Greene.
January 4th, 2012
"One may be pardoned, yes I know / One may, for love undying."
January 3rd, 2012
We cannot know what we are doing. We can only know when we are doing it wrong.
December 31st, 2011
I would not tear papers apart — say they're no good and say they don't work — unless I believed that all of you are capable of writing good fiction.
December 30th, 2011
I sometimes say that Jeremy Prynne taught me everything I know about poetry: which is why I know nothing about poetry.
December 28th, 2011
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
