Noir Fiction and Hot Artichoke hors d'oeuvres
I was reading Scott Esposito’s entry about attention span when I did exactly what he described by linking to the Village Voice so handily displayed on his...
Year: 2005
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
Playwright Arthur Miller, born in New York City to Polish immigrants, died yesterday at age 89. I think it’s a back-handed compliment for many English maj...
Brief Interview with Alexander McCall Smith
The British G.K. Chesterton wrote, “It is to be feared that about a hundred detective stories have begun with the discovery that an American millionare ha...
"Find the Good and Praise It"
Author Alex Haley, born 1921, died of a heart attack on this day in 1992. Haley began writing as a journalist in the Coast Guard. His first book was The Autobio...
Quotable: The New Criterion
"Plain language, the absence of posturing, sense of proportion, humour, abandonment of the dithyrambic ideal"—that was one of Larkin’s rapid sketches of the...
He's Four, but he's a Driver
The news that a four year old Michigan boy stole mom’s car and drove it to the video store caught my eye; he made it to the store, but on the way home dre...