Elderism #72
Saturday, November 21st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »“We have no excuse for self-satisfaction while we allow the atrocity of the Pina Colada to flourish unchecked in our midst.” -Kingsley Amis, in Everyday Drinking
The Consolation of Lists
Saturday, November 21st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »In an interview in Der Spiegel, The Name of the Rose novelist Umberto Eco talks about the show at the Louvre he's been curating. The theme of the exhibition is lists (Eco has a new book out from Rizzoli called ...
Elderism #71
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time." -Edith Wharton.
The Big Four O
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »What gift are you giving Sesame Street for its 40th anniversary this year? Rubies are traditional, but I'm going with felt.
Elderism #70
Monday, October 12th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"You have beautiful hands." -Flaubert scholar Francis Steegmuller, to a nurse who was cranking up his bed in a Naples hospital in 1994, hours before Steegmuller passed away at the age of 88.
How to Get Stuff Done
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"Every few years when it's been another five years that have passed and I haven't made a film and the depression starts taking over totally, I allow myself to do a commercial. And then I feel really dirty and get ...
Elderism #69
Friday, October 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"I started it." -Elizabeth Taylor, beamingly, when told in 2006 that Julia Roberts was pulling down $20 million per film.
Wisdom: Does It Exist?
Friday, October 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The quarterly journal, In Character, has an interesting mandate: each issue is devoted to an "everyday virtue" (past issues have included "Thrift," "Purpose," and "Grit.") This fall's issue is "Wisdom," and I was asked--along with a group of far-deeper-than-me folks ...
Elderism #68
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"Love is a source of anxiety until it is a source of boredom; only friendship feeds the spirit." -Novelist Edmund White, as quoted in a Bloomberg.com review by Craig Seligman of White's new memoir, City Boy. Seligman: "What a blast it ...
Life After Death
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I had a segment on public radio's Studio 360 this weekend about how the publisher, Scribner, has monkeyed with Ernest Hemingway's memoir, A Movable Feast. Now an article in the Wall Street Journal by Alexandra Alter tells us that the ...
