1) Lost in the Funhouse, John Barth The second half; I started it right after Christmas 2015. I liked the Ambrose stories way better than the mythology stories. 2) Ezra…
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Art Pepper, the jazz saxophonist, wrote, with his wife Laurie Pepper, one of the great books about art and addiction, his memoir Straight Life. After describing his childhood, and his…
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At the end of a post for Indie/CriticWire chronicling some "awkward moviegoing experiences," the ever-game Matt Singer asks readers if they can "top" his anecdote about how he ill-advisedly brought…
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I recently began writing a cultural column for a website that addresses the concerns of citizens over fifty years of age. Yeah, I know. You can't read it yet because…
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Apparently the Internet believes that anyone who accesses it is some kind of a human content maw that requires endless feeding, because there's really no other way to explain the…
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Q: What's the difference between Elvis Mitchell and Roger Kimball? A: There's more than one. But a particularly salient one, though, it seems, is that when Elvis Mitchell makes a…
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