Dawn’s End
Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »From The Golden Spur, comic novelist Dawn Powell's last book, published in 1962, when Powell was 65: "But you had so little time left, and it seemed as if you dared not stop running for a minute. You didn't run to ...
New Old
Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »On other blogs: -Alex Littlefield reveals Where the Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak's favorite-ever book title. (It's not I Married Adventure. Nor is it My Wicked, Wicked Way or even Hullaballoo in the Guava Orchard.) -There's a new season of Old ...
How I Took a Former Gang Member to See the New Broadway Production of “West Side Story”
Friday, June 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »There are few more amusing sights to me than that of gang members who erupt into a frenzy of Sondheim lyrics and precision choreography. So a couple months ago I had the somewhat nutty idea that it would be fun ...
Gavelinas
Friday, June 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »There was an interesting article in the Times the other day by Neil A. Lewis re whether female judges judge differently from male ones. The issue has come up not only because of the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia SotomayOR ...
Elderism #54
Saturday, May 30th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Muhammad Ali: "My toughest fight was with my first wife."
What to Say/Do in the Countryside
Friday, May 29th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »As summer starts to extend its delicate tendrils, one's mind turns to houses in the countryside, and the possiblity of being invited thereto. How should one comport oneself if given the nod? There would seem to be two ways to ...
Elderism #53
Friday, May 29th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Muhammad Ali, asked if he'd ever been in love: "Not with anybody else."
Elderism #52
Friday, May 22nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Comedian Eddie Sarfaty, in his upcoming book of essays, "Mental," re telling his 95 year-old grandmother that he's gay: "Her fists close and her eyes fill up. She is silent for the longest moment and then, speaking through the tears, ...
No Happy Woman Ever Writes
Friday, May 22nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I've been sort of fascinated by the career of pioneering feminist literary theorist Elaine Showalter (born 1941) ever since I noticed a few years back that this former head of the Princeton English department was writing 300-word book reviews in ...
The White Light Is Actually Pink and Aqua
Friday, May 22nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »It's said that Pablo Picasso--who died in 1973 at age 91--worked right up until the bitter end: on the day he died, he woke and asked if there was a canvas stretched and ready for him to paint on. In writing ...
