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Friday, February 15, 2008

Excuses, Excuses

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I've had deadlines stacked up like planes over O'Hare this week, so I'm behind in my postings. But hey, I've gotta pay the b...
Sunday, February 10, 2008

Twice Upon a Time

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This review ran today in the San Jose Mercury News : THE COMMONER By John Burnham Schwartz Talese/Doubleday, 351 pp., $24.95 They live...
Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Apropos of Absolutely Nothing

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A classic:
Tuesday, February 5, 2008

The Stars Are Out

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One of my friends got a robocall from Scarlett Johansson for Obama. Another heard from Chris Rock. And I got Jack Nicholson for Hillary.

Vote as You Please, But Please Vote

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My friend Fran Smith, a Hillary supporter, and I, a late convert to Obamaism, recently had an e-mail debate that to my mind encapsulates the...

What to Read Next

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Critical Mass , the National Book Critics Circle's blog, has a regular feature it calls Good Reads . It surveys the membership as well a...
Sunday, February 3, 2008

Old King Coal

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The following review ran today (in a version very nicely edited for space) in the Dallas Morning News . This is the unedited version. ...
Thursday, January 31, 2008

Talkin' 'bout My Generation

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The Mercury News today had one of those perfectly obvious "news" stories on its front page, about how Obama, Clinton/Romney, and M...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

And Then There Were Two

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A friend of mine who supports Obama, and who is quite knowledgeable about the Clintons, had this to say recently: "I have a problem wit...
Monday, January 28, 2008

Mansfield Misfire

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Mansfield Park is sometimes called Jane Austen's "problem" novel, the problem being that its moral vision is so very differen...