The adventure in The Phantom Tollbooth doesn’t change; it’s the meaning we find in it that evolves.
November 17th, 2011
Education is as close to a secular religion as we have in the United States.
November 15th, 2011
On Occupy Cal and the fight over public education in California.
November 13th, 2011
I heard a student exclaim, "This isn’t a protest or demonstration — it’s a process."
November 13th, 2011
At first I was skeptical about Occupy Riverside. But the more I heard about what was going on downtown, the more enthusiastic I became.
November 13th, 2011
As the tent city grows, a community has sprouted, igniting human interaction in ways that are often anathema to Los Angeles’s sprawl.
November 12th, 2011
Writing my book, I kept asking myself: Why haven’t we fought back? Why don’t 21st century writers organize?
November 12th, 2011
It was decided, a species of what we might call a “postmodern general strike” will come lumbering out of the revolutionary textbook.
November 12th, 2011
A symptom?! Why does a book celebrating the talents of individual Los Angeles artists suddenly go all Fernand Braudel on us
November 11th, 2011
The book is a reminder that whenever you think things can’t get worse, they can. They can get much, much worse.
November 9th, 2011
I hadn’t realized until Wood was off my pedestal that I’d built one. That I’d sunk stock in the myth of a great critic.
November 7th, 2011
These unanticipated truffles hiding deep in the gratin dauphinois of Gopnik's larger story remind us that food permeates every facet of our lives.
November 3rd, 2011
Cage, so long associated with the New York avant-garde, now strikes me as quintessentially Californian, and more specifically, Angeleno.
November 2nd, 2011
I’d found my thing. I embraced the scary. I befriended it. The monsters and I fell in love, and I didn’t question why. I was home.
October 30th, 2011
The theme of male friendship is virgin territory for Rush, but the basic framework of the protagonist-couple and their idioverse is a Rushian staple.
October 23rd, 2011
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
