"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
December 23rd, 2011
The adventure in The Phantom Tollbooth doesn’t change; it’s the meaning we find in it that evolves.
November 17th, 2011
The best faeries ever.
June 25th, 2012
A symptom?! Why does a book celebrating the talents of individual Los Angeles artists suddenly go all Fernand Braudel on us
November 11th, 2011
Patricia Patterson is an accretive artist, invariably extending, but rarely leaving much behind.
June 16th, 2011
I would come to the Parker novels with fresh, innocent eyes, like a newborn fawn staring at the world for the first time, or at a pair of headlights.
October 14th, 2011
'Boardwalk Empire, 'The Sopranos,' and The Great American Crime Drama.
December 2nd, 2012
An essay on the late photographer Miroslav Tichý, excerpted from 'Richard Prince: Collected Writings'.
April 21st, 2011
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
