• Bad Professor: James Kincaid misunderstands cultural theory, the JonBenet Phenom, and most of us.
    James R. Kincaid, an English prof. at USC, has been writing in The Slate, and practically everywhere else, about how we are given to autom...
  • Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss
    (Sorry to have been so solipsistic--although The Yunus Nobel and the Desai Booker provided the much-needed antidote to that : ) I have b...
  • Wishing I were there...
    Friends and old neighbors shutting it down in honor of John Crawford. _
  • SIGN
    Sunlight. arrogance sees, sleeps Now i understand: every thing you say. In the dark. heartbeat dee...
  • So Far Away
    At had us pose for this pic  up at Aunt R's place on Lake Huron  so he could put it up in his dorm.  "Don't tur...
  • Aaj Chelli ka Happy Birthday Hey!
    Today is the birthday of the best sister in the whole world (mine:)! Happy, Happy Birthday, Chelli! [AA, my favorite aunt in the whole wor...
  • Borat (So What?)
    Yesterday at lunch with the awesome Pied Piper and an accomplished, pioneering writer whose anonymity we shall preserve, Piper turned to me...
  • Nine
    She knows that the child and his friend --another child-- read her words.   She hides small messages of hope and love  ...