
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"


“Every Accountant Tells a Story”
January 6th, 2013




“Terror and Beauty: Martin Hägglund’s "Dying for Time"”
February 5th, 2013
“Enlightenment: It's What's For Dinner”
March 10th, 2013
“Discoveries: Frances Moore Lappé”
September 24th, 2011
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... 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

"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