Archive for January, 2009

There Is A God

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

More reviews: Seattle Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Washington Blade, Denver Post, Hartford Courant.

Alford vs. Athill: A Literary Smackdown

Saturday, January 24th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

There's a terrific piece just published by Laura Miller on Salon.com that compares my new book with a memoir written by 91 year-old British editor Diana Athill.

What Have I Created?

Thursday, January 15th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

"Henry," you are no doubt wondering, "how is your mother handling the fact that, in the review of your new book in the current issue of Oprah magazine, she is described as 'a role model for the ages'?" Well, I can ...

I Am Not a Nutjob

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

There's an article in this week's Newsweek about a new $2.7 million program at the University of Chicago that will be dedicated to Defining Wisdom (as the program is called.) The Chicago scholars are looking at some quite unusual sources ...