Cultural consumption involved George Saunders' consummately misanthropic CivilWarLand, as well as Pygmalion (1938) and The 49th Parallel (1944)
During this lovely autumn month I will read a new short story each day and then write a brief post…
George Saunders' short story collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, was born in a minimum security prison in central Pennysylvania
During the hot days of August my tremendous appetite to read was momentarily sated by more Tolstoy (eternally), James Baldwin,…
Why reading slowly, especially War and Peace, should be practiced with solicitude, so as to fully appreciate the journey reading…
The books and films that I read and viewed during the month of July 2020, including The Life and Death…
On the phrase "hocus pocus," from Marina Warner's essay “Spellbound” on the book Drawing Down The Moon
Children in Good Morning protest social mores because they fail to appreciate the rules governing the relations of families and…
George Floyd was killed | among twenty snowy mountains | the only moving thing was the eye of the blackbird…
An explanation of the cryptic subtitle of my site, namely, that I am an erstwhile flâneur.