Dunwoody The beginning of this review by Rivka Galchen reads almost like a Borges faux-review short story. Her double-take writing does indeed make me do doubletakes. And much as I love Balzac I certainly never heard that story before.
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The Ferry Terminal.
20-Sep-10buy stromectol in uk An excerpt from the Staten Island book in Brooklyn Rail. The Staten Island book is (at long last!) nearing its release, which should be in October. I’ve been proofing the galleys over the past few days. The book can be ordered here.
One of the better-known figures in Classics today is Father Reginald Foster. His story is interesting enough to have appeared in the media several times, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, the BBC, and most thoroughly in The American Scholar.[1] He has his own weekly spot on Vatican Radio, called “the Latin […]
The Strange Recurrence of Failure
28-Sep-08The desire for success is one of those traits that seem natural enough to a human being, and I have been convinced that this desire is laudable in myself because I have baptized it, by defining success as service to others. And yet I find in my life a continual thwarting of it, […]