More Thoughts on Friendship
Just because I’m taking a modified break right now doesn’t have to mean that our conversation about friendship needs to stop. Before I hung my “Gone Fishin'” sign on the front door, I found some…
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Summer Break, Fall Plans. . .
As I mentioned here not long ago, I’ve just entered my tenth year of blogging, and in all those years, I don’t think I’ve ever gone a week without posting. I’ve also mentioned here recently…
View PostMore July Reading — Two Titles for You
When I last wrote here, I was partway through Teju Cole’s Open City, remarking on how much Cole’s writing reminds me of W.G. Sebald’s and discovering (with some embarrassment) that I was far from the…
View PostRecent Reading Adventures — the Public Library and Beyond. . .
After years of not using the public library, relying instead on the academic libraries of my grad schools and then of the university I taught at, I finally renewed my membership at the library in…
View PostWhat I Read, First Half of 2016
A friend pointed out to me the other day that, with the end of June, we were already halfway through 2016. The observation gave me pause. Pater and I have done so much already in…
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