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My (Imaginary) Publishing Empire Expands
In my mind, I’m already a mogul. (I’d dress like one, but I can’t afford it.) That’s because in a...
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Styron's Havanas in Camelot
Wednesday would have been the 83rd birthday of William Styron, author of Sophie’s Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and...
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The Ineffability of Happiness
Is happiness the phylum in the kingdom of hope? It’s a little hard to tell, since the subspecies of happy...
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The Recursive Self
As I said a few days ago, my acquaintance Crazy Larry and I went recently to Abbey Road on the...
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Big Jerk-Head
Several of the events at the lit festival I went to last weekend convened in a narrow room above a...
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A Miscellany of Things Related to Previous Things
As you read this, I’m on the road with Crazy Larry, headed for Louisville, Kentucky, and Abbey Road on the...
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What David Bowen Knows
As I wrote in a couple of earlier posts ( here and here), I’ve long had an interest in independent...
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Academics Behaving Badly
Last month I went to an organizational meeting for anyone on campus interested in teaching courses (off-campus) for people who...