Will a time ever come when I am not so completely dependent on thoughts I first had in childhood to furnish the feedstock for my comparisons and analogies and sense of the parallel rhythms of microhistory? Will I reach a point where there will be a good chance, I mean more than fifty-fifty chance, that …
On Thursday I went to see the Sweedish version of “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” As the owner of the theater said in his curtain speech (yes, the Arts Cinema nearby features an old man who does a curtain speech before every show, it’s adorable) the U.S. version will probably take this adult thriller and …
Here’s the thing – just like everyone else I have a bit of a Martha Stewart aesthetic desire. In theory – my life would look like this. or (from Design Is Mine) But in reality, I fear that I wouldn’t actually be able to live like this. That one perfect dress on that bare white …
“The smell of pantries, the sense of empty afternoons, the feel of things as they rained across our skin, things as facts and passions, the feel of pain, loss, disappointment, breathless delight….this is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.” Don DeLillo, White …
