Greg Brown

Robert Caro interviewed by Charlie Rose

Nov 21st

Follow-up notes on Changing My Mind

I finished Zadie Smith’s new essay book Changing My Mind today (after picking it up on...

Nov 21st

An example page from Edward Tufte’s book Beautiful...

Nov 19th

I’m halfway through Changing my Mind by Zadie Smith, a...

Nov 18th

Gratuitous Picture Of Yourself Wednesday: Sunset Edition!

Nov 18th

Literary guilt, quantified

Today I rearranged my library here in Michigan just so I could figure out exactly how much I’m...

Nov 18th

“Pinball attracted a different crowd than video games like...”
— Jeff Ely, writing about The...

Nov 18th

A Roland Emmerich Haiku

Rewatched Godzilla; I found it strangely mundane. Touché, Twenty-twelve.

Nov 17th

Watch

Why yes, 2012 does have the most absurd song-over-credits and associated music video ever. We...

Nov 16th

2012 is easily the best comedy I’ve seen in theaters...

Nov 16th

Quizipedia

Nov 14th

megamindy: GPOYW: Yeah, I did it edition. Fact: rays of...

Nov 14th

So I finally captured a cell-phone photo of the elusive...

Nov 13th

I have a gender-inappropriate love for this movie. As I told...

Nov 13th

“The debate about Heidegger reminded me of a conversation I...”
— Ron Rosenbaum, writing in...

Nov 11th

“Now that she was abroad, the hat was a sentimental object....”
— Milan Kundera, in The...

Nov 10th

Early Disappointment

While still waking up this morning, I browsed NYTimes.com and a headline caught my eye in the...

Nov 10th

This photo of the first hydrogen bomb ever tested -...

Nov 10th

Listen

Adrian Younge - Man with the Heat (Superbad) Black Dynamite has been out in theaters for almost a...

Nov 9th

Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

Nov 9th

Just finished watching Les Choristes in preparation for...

Nov 8th

Watching this with my high school kids RIGHT NOW. Still...

Nov 8th

“The narrative is fascinating to me. It’s a way of viewing...”
— Buster Benson, on narratives. ...

Nov 7th

Payday Swag Today I could finally afford to go into town,...

Nov 7th

Latest setback for the Large Hadron Collider:...

Nov 6th

“[Malcolm] Gladwell promised readers mastery of the complex...”
— Maureen Tkacik, writing...

Nov 6th

slaughterhouse90210: “Stupidity is the same as evil if you...

Nov 5th

I’m 21 suckars! My best friend Zoe is 21 today!...

Nov 4th

“The good writing of any age has always been the product of...”
— William Styron, quoted by Anne...

Nov 3rd

Are we past the expiration date for candid Halloween...

Nov 3rd

So I went as a Twilight super-fan for Halloween - complete...

Nov 1st