A short story excerpted from the 'New Yorker' writer's 'The Lists of the Past'
August 26th, 2012
The Epilogues
August 13th, 2012
On Lacrosse and Wax Bullet
August 12th, 2012
On Track and Swimming
August 10th, 2012
On 'the lake has no saint' by Stacey Waite
August 9th, 2012
On Trampoline and Women's Boxing
August 7th, 2012
The Ghost Sports: Baseball
August 6th, 2012
On Table Tennis and Track & Field
August 3rd, 2012
Limbering Up: John Keats as Handball Olympian
July 31st, 2012
A mother's attempts to protect her son from her own past
July 2nd, 2012
A new literature for a new age, the 'Age of Man'
June 20th, 2012
Each age gets the Sherlock Holmes it deserves.
May 21st, 2012
"Block paints Los Angeles in late-eighties' Rococo: Patrick Nagel doing the Go-Gos in dayglo."
April 23rd, 2012
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... 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
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"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
