The adventure in The Phantom Tollbooth doesn’t change; it’s the meaning we find in it that evolves.
November 17th, 2011
On her one and only book, 'The Lists of the Past'
August 22nd, 2012
On Kurt Vonnegut's literary remains
February 24th, 2013
On Occupy Cal and the fight over public education in California.
November 13th, 2011
Given the choice between a book and a baseball bat, there is no choice for Buster. He’ll take the bat every time
April 19th, 2011
On her classic 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency'
December 23rd, 2012
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
Bradbury addresses every reader with a fatherly clarity. He’s instructive, in the profound sense of passing experience on.
June 11th, 2012
I met Ernest Borgnine last summer at a wrap party for 'The Man Who Shook the Hand...
August 20th, 2012
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
