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Yet another example of why you shouldn’t sit down next to me if you see me...
You might be a normal person who hears a child chant, as I just did, “Made you look/Made you look/Now you’re in the baby book,” and forget it immediately. I envy you, friend. I, unfortunately, am not a...
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Photos from North Korea
Like many in the insulated west, I’ve long been fascinated by North Korea, what life is like in there, and what will happen to the peninsula after the walls come down. (Of course, I’m half a world...
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God Only Knows
If you followed my TED coverage last week (or if you’ve talked to me since I’ve come back), you know that one of the great pleasures of the conference for me was the string quartet ETHEL: agile,...
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I could explain it, but I think I’d rather cultivate mystery
Filed under: unexplainable mysteries
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Scared straight
From Skills Honed in Illicit Trades, and Put to Better Use: Tardiness, informal footwear, or talking out of turn will earn students a punishment that they call an “A.P. Style,” which means writing out...
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Steve Martin remembers — or does he?
Finally got around to reading Steve Martin’s Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life, a straightforward, mostly serious consideration of his formative years. What struck me most, aside from the occasional...
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Revealed: the Flannery O’Connor/Lucinda Williams connection
Lucinda Williams once chased Flannery O’Connor’s peacocks … When Williams was kindergarten age in the late ‘50s, she and her father, the poet Miller Williams, drove from Macon, Ga., to Milledgeville,...
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