Reading Codrescu's collections actually slowed my pace and gave me a different kind of peace for thinking. Generally I look to stimulation for thought from good stimulants like coffee or Coltrane. Instead, I lay, reclined on my sofa, with July heat of Chicago spilling between my linguine window...
This is a wide-ranging romp through modern America by a character, Wakefield, who has made a deal with the devil to begin living authentically, to find his 'true life'. Given that Wakefield is a self-help guru of sorts, cynically making up lectures to move audiences of tech CEOs and socialites, i...
This school is ancient: Heraclitus and Sappho both belonged to it, but there is little or no record of it because the school abolished itself many times over the course of history and the Platonists destroyed all references to it. Plato and his gang were from the other school, which maintained th...
Redman, had reluctantly surrendered to his son’s religious education, and bought two airplane tickets with it. They were the cheapest tickets available, on BookAir (“The Airline for People Who Read”), a cut-rate airline that offered no-frill flights around the world. Instead of fancy electronic e...