Impostors
I’m not much for celebrity, but I do like hearing about ordinary impostors. […]
Happy Nieman Holidays
The Nieman Holiday Card. Cool to be on it! And wonderful to see […]
Cookies, stumbled
I have no idea how my grandmother used to do what she did […]
What’s in a name?
I wrote Mister Act, a little piece on identity and human nature, about […]
The not-so-funny life of freelancers
Lauren Lipton, a novelist and freelancer, has posted two animated episodes of freelance […]
Last class of the semester
The Business School at Harvard goes a week longer than the college, so […]
Maybe McLuhan was wrong
“The classified ads (and stock-market quotations) are the bedrock of the press. Should […]
RIP Tom Monahan
I had the great good fortune to work with Tom Monahan for six […]
The paradox of the Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot loads his Four Quartets with paradoxes. “In my beginning is my […]
Ordinary and extraordinary
I like poetry that speaks to the ordinary as well as the sublime. […]