Month: April 2005

April 8, 2005

>The Line of Beauty

>For the first 400 or so pages of The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst, I was sure the 2004 Man Booker Prize judges…
April 7, 2005

>123.5

>A new book meme circulating around the sphere is going by the name “123.5,” and its rules are these:1. Grab the nearest book.2. Open…
April 6, 2005

>Saul Bellow

>Bellow was an early influence. No, “influence” isn’t quite the right word; I didn’t read him closely enough, or identify with him, or imitate…
April 5, 2005

>Wild Daffodils

>Wild Daffodils Hundreds of daffodils appear each year (of course) in the field behind my house. Until I bought the land, it was pasture…
April 3, 2005

>Twelfth Night

>If music be the food of love, play on;Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.That strain again! it…
April 1, 2005

>Wolfowitz Confirmed

>I spent Wednesday at the World Bank, the day before the Board of Executive Directors met to consider the nomination of Paul Wolfowitz as…
April 1, 2005

>Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train (cont’d–Part I.5)

>5.The whistle splits open spitting outhot seeds. The thin grasses ignite.At the far end of the field loadedwith quicksilver the wild horses are running.We…
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