Nietzche in the morning
Shortly after getting up I checked my Twitter feed — a weakness, to be sure — and saw that Alain de Botton was Tweeting quotes about anger. Here’s one: Angry…
Tag Archives: reviews
Liesl Schillinger: WTF?
Usually I appreciate Schillinger’s reviews, which is why I was astonished to find her bringing a bunch of paper-thin gender assumptions to Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen in the NY…
Kenneth Turan on reviewing
LA Times film reviewer Kenneth Turan writes about the risk of being wrong in the face of “the tyranny of the masterpiece.” I am kind of amazed by the comments…
Obsessing the Mysteries at Sundance
Shortly after beginning my graduate career at Pitt, the place where Michael Chabon was an English major undergrad, I was an extra in the film version of his book Mysteries…
