Just when I thought I’d never agree with anything Dale Peck said, he goes and says this in an interview with Ellen Heltzel:
Why does literature have to be so boring? And why, when it is funny, does it have to be so juvenile? Dave Eggers does the post-modern, “I’m talking about the book that I’m writing inside the book I’m writing. Isn’t that funny?’’ No, it’s not funny. It’s a lot funnier on “The Simpsons” than it is in Dave Eggers’ book.
A Democratic Socialist explains «what Democratic Socialism actually is»: Not just a return to the halcyon days of the New Deal. “I’m a staff writer at the socialist magazine Jacobin and a member of DSA, and here’s...
Looks like my second book (about microburst crashes) just gained a new chapter, «as described at AvHerald». Passenger-point-of-view videos are also posted; pretty amazing. (Don’t watch if you can’t deal with...
A somewhat weird good morning Rochester today as steam from a power plant drifts across the rising sun. Wind is calm, …
Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, February 1, 2016
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