Just getting to the end of last week’s New Yorker.  There is a fairly overwritten article by Adam Gopnik purportedly on two books on the Dreyfus Affair but which really wants to save Dreyfus, heroically all over again.  In the first paragraph it refers to Alfred Dreyfus as “a youth Jewish artillery officer and a [...]

What John Cole said.
Obama is reading Tom Friedman’s book while vacationing in Martha’s Vineyard.  Vomitorious!   (Although as a devoted Ann Coulter reader, I should probably read it).

It’s official: I now hate President Obama.  Maybe next he’ll read some tract put out by the Kennedy Compound Press about why it’s bad to build a wind farm [...]

When I was in [all-boys, Catholic] high school, we read a book called Meeting the Living God by William O’Malley, a Jesuit priest and actor (he played Father Dyer in The Exorcist).  I remember that in a discussion of the importance of faith, atheism is basically treated as a flippant, insincere idea batted around at [...]

Publish it, bitches!

So I’ve finished Thomas Pynchon’s longest work to date, 2006’s Against the Day.  Even though I’m essentially unemployed, was effectively homebound while on the lemonade cleanse, and I really don’t know that many people here in S.F. yet, it still took me almost a month. And even allotting due diligence to its 1085 oversized pages–I [...]