
“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


“The Lonely Heart's Club: Fiona Maazel's "Woke Up Lonely"”
April 3rd, 2013
“A Loud Legacy: On Pat Loud's "Lance Out Loud"”
February 17th, 2013
“Little Big Legend: On Larry McMurtry's Custer”
February 3rd, 2013
“Life on Mars: Gary Panter’s "Dal Tokyo"”
January 24th, 2013
“L’Amour (Oh La La) L’Amour is Strange”
December 16th, 2012
“Lessons from the Field: On "Wild Hope" by Andrew Balmford”
November 18th, 2012
“Lizard Brains: On "The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets"”
November 18th, 2012
“The Lure of the Oeuthre: On Charles Portis and Flannery O'Connor”
November 18th, 2012

“Louder Than a Bomb: On The Sounds of Black Power”
October 17th, 2012

“Lost Between Scripture and Self”
July 31st, 2012
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"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

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

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More