
“The distinction between complex thinking / right-answer thinking increasingly defines the difference between elite educational opportunity and education of the rest.”"If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology" by Monica Cohen



On Kurt Vonnegut's literary remains
February 24th, 2013
The New Female Slapstick
February 20th, 2013
On Paul Chan, artist and founder of Badlands Unlimited publishing
February 8th, 2013
An tribute to the late great film critic
February 1st, 2013
On the 'truant spirit' of Green's enduring masterpiece
January 15th, 2013
'Memoir begins not with event but with the intuition of meaning...'
January 10th, 2013
Creativity and its consequences in China
December 30th, 2012
On her classic 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency'
December 23rd, 2012
On 'Shame,' Salman Rushdie's great "forgotten" novel
November 23rd, 2012

On her one and only book, 'The Lists of the Past'
August 22nd, 2012
I met Ernest Borgnine last summer at a wrap party for 'The Man Who Shook the Hand...
August 20th, 2012

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More


"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More


"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More


"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... 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