“Oh! It is only a novel! … only some work in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1818) Related articles Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels […]
Jazz Is: 13 – A Blue Monk ‘Round Midnight
Thelonius A twofer in honor of what would have been his 93rd birthday, October 10. You can play piano like that. ————— Related articles Thelonius Monk: Straight No Chaser (uptownflavor.com) Jazz Museum in Harlem Schedule (harlemworldblog.wordpress.com) Music Review: Thelonious Monk – The Definitive Thelonious Monk On Prestige and Riverside (blogcritics.org) Abbey Lincoln, the All-in-One Jazz […]
Eating Poetry (XXIV) – Giacomo Leopardi
The New Yorker, September 13, 2010
Demonstrating Rick Sanchez and Other Things
From Gawker, first indications of Rick Sanchez’s response to events – through his wife. Rick Sanchez—the CNN anchor who was fired after insinuating that Jews control the media—might be coming out of hiding. According to Sanchez’s wife, he called Daily Show host Jon Stewart (the target of Sanchez’s remarks) to say “sorry.” In an update […]
How We Lived on It (26) – The Rockaways
I lived the second decade of my life, my adolescence, in the beach community of the Rockaways – the Rockaway peninsula of New York City, in the area named Far Rockaway and one called Rockaway Park. Named after the Rockaway Indians, the peninsula is twenty miles and a two-hour subway ride on the A train […]