
“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





Hopper's reception abroad
January 1st, 2013
On Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT
January 1st, 2013
On autobiographies by Jay-Z, Patti Smith, and Johnny Ramone
December 7th, 2012
On three English translations of 'The Iliad'
October 30th, 2012

On 'How Should a Person Be?' and the explicit attention to female desire in recent novels, films, and shows
September 27th, 2012
Cheryl Strayed, Erika Schickel, & a Facebook Fracas
August 25th, 2012
"To become the person who wrote that prose, that poetry, would mean that I had, at long last, truly become myself."
May 14th, 2012
"I stole home and robbed my parents of their American Dream."
May 12th, 2012
"Los Angeles became a carnival of repression."
April 30th, 2012
It is not necessarily a value judgment, then, to say that narrative is, very simply, what Mad Men is about.
March 25th, 2012
"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

"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

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