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The Basic Beliefs of Bob Dylan (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
My book The Basic Beliefs of Judaism: A Twenty-first-Century Guide to a Timeless Tradition has just been published. Writing it compelled me to think of how idea systems are structured and about the nature…
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Great Movie Moment: Splendor in the Grass “Miss Metcalf, may I be excused?”
The first time I watched this movie, this scene — not the scene in which Warren Beatty pushes Natalie Wood to her knees, or frolics naked under the waterfall with the town tramp(the girl…
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Six Love, Six One, Six Love (We Won)
Stephanie Paterik and David Lehman before their first-round mixed doubles match at the US Open, Monday, August 26.
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On the American Grotesque [by Larry Sawyer]
In writing about themes including the sleaziness of the film industry, war in Afghanistan, the gutter nature of politics, and the absurdity of American life, my book Unable to Fully California seats itself squarely…
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“Happy Thirty-One, Sara Peters!” (+ “Happy 264, Wolfgang Goethe!”) [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
SARA PETERS (8/28)Sara Peters, thirty-one:Stop the winds and block the sun.Golf-cart Goethe, somewhat more:He’s two hundred sixty-four.German poet, sing a burst:Sara Peters’ thirty-first.Schwester von dem ersten Licht:Werther’s song in meter strict.Noon on August twenty-eightPrompts…
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Quote of the Day: “When I left Iowa [the Iowa Writers’ Workshop] . . .
I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take my work to the actual reading…
