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Norman Mailer blames plastic
His final book was great: a long interview about God. He hated plastic and also air conditioning. He was ambivalent about toilets — but who isn't?
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Major Imponderables Loom on the Investment Horizon
Staring today, our principle financial market reporter is, as he puts it, "on hiatus from the Street for two months." Vacationing with his family, he will not be filing during this time. He emphasizes…
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Bagpipes, Synagogues and Big Sur [by Sally Ashton]
Last night the local bagpipe and drum core that practices in the nearby synagogue’s parking lot moaned its way toward “She’s a Grand Ol’ Flag” and I knew it was July. Their rendition, beautiful…
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William Logan on Frank O’Hara
Re: "Death is often a good career move in poetry" (the first sentence of William Logan's review of Frank O'Hara's Selected) as if FOH committed suicidewhen all he did was watch the tide drunk…
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Areas of Smoke (by Sally Ashton)
The rosiest evening of the year. Earlier the sun RED and the sky strange and bilious, both from leaden smoke clouds and yellowed air. With so much suspended particulate, the air, the space between…
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Harold Bloom on Jazz
Harold Bloom [photo by Sue Mingus] . . . the whole jazz tradition from at least Amstrong on features what was called "cutting." And cutting is the pure instance – from the Greeks on,…
