Year: 2004

As careful readers of this blog will remember, I have been focusing on American foreign policy and strategy in my non-fiction reading. Next up on my reading lis...

In case you haven’t noticed by some of the quotes around here, I have been reading Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. I picked up a handy Bar...

There have been some interesting posts around the the literary blogosphere on writing and/or on being a writer. I thought I would make a note of them here in ca...

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner o...

If I was a shy reticent person I might not announce my birthday in some sort of grand pronouncement. But then if I was shy and reticent what are the odds I woul...

A science fiction classic about a boy genius on whose tiny shoulders the hopes of the world rest.