Month: October 2008

October 6, 2008

>Distraction

>It’s a combination of things, but I’ll blame election season primarily. I’m involved, I’m busy, I’m reading tea leaves. Posts are likely to be…
October 6, 2008

>The New Yorker: "The Idiot President" by Daniel Alarcón

>Anyone who has read Daniel Alarcón’s Lost City Radio will, I imagine, recognize the style and cadence of this story. Like that novel, “The…
October 1, 2008

>Nobel Prize Watch

>First, don’t expect this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature to be an American. It’s been widely reported that the top member…