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


On "Deenie," "Tiger Eyes," "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret"
November 27th, 2012
L.A. is where I come back to when women divorce me.
November 21st, 2012
...the hard-hooks that fold you down to your knees...
November 14th, 2012

A reckoning with the author of 'Bright Lights, Big City'
October 3rd, 2012
I lived in Shaoyang, a city in Hunan province famous for clementines and murder.
August 30th, 2012
The shadow of the culture wars falls over these books, and Jane Austen becomes both the rescued and the rescuer.
September 5th, 2011
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... 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

"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

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