Announcement… “One Shoe On” 20 Apr 202420 Apr 2024 My latest to be published, "One Shoe On" explores friendship and loss between two very different souls who nevertheless came to mean a great deal to each other. It's odd,…
book review Book Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” 10 Apr 202111 Mar 2022 in Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro has produced yet another novel that is equal parts peculiar and affecting, in this case the story of an advanced AI in humanoid…
Author post Our Own Day Here 16 Nov 201718 Nov 2017 Author's note: The ideas I explored in this essay--long ago, at a time before the phrase "identity politics" became current--those ideas are still under vigorous dispute, on both right and…
Author post… Recursions, Part 7: “The Portable Hannah Arendt,” Edited by Peter Baehr 5 Oct 20175 Oct 2017 This is the seventh in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
Author post… Recursions, Part 6: Christopher Hitchens’s “Unacknowledged Legislation” 3 Aug 20175 Aug 2017 This is the sixth in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
Author post… Recursions, Part 5: Flannery O’Connor’s “Mystery and Manner” 30 Jul 201730 Jul 2017 This is the fifth in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
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