Month: October 2006
You are what you read.
The Chronicle: 9/22/2006: Other People’s Books What interests me about other people’s books is the nature of their collection. A personal library is an X-ray of the owner’s soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way of being in the world. Even how the books are arranged on the shelves … Continue reading You are what you read.
It followed me home. Can I keep it?
“White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006” (Donald Hall)
Critics explore the humanity of their victims.
While drifting through that netherworld of tangled wires and idiomatic, unrehearsed language that is the web, I sometimes come across chunks of interest that give me hope, for various reasons. Today’s reason for hope is the following tidbit from a former music critic, who actually manages to get to the core of his subject’s personality. … Continue reading Critics explore the humanity of their victims.
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