Far from being alone, he’s describing most men today. Brave and well done.

What's yours?

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Poetic

If you’re not going to see your oldest living relative as often as you can, what are you even doing? This is your opportunity to travel through time on the shoulders of someone you love.

Political battles aside, public libraries are the jewels of American civic life. Nothing else in the public commons compares. Especially if you have kids.

the root of Orwell's genius

Remarkable essay by Simon Leys on George Orwell, republished by China Heritage. 'Decent people say nothing because they see nothing ... because they have no imagination.' The reverse applies to both Leys and Orwell. chinaheritage.net/journal/ninete…

This was the library I worked out of last week in a small town in Northern Massachusetts.

One of 2,509 'Carnegie Libraries' funded by Andrew Carnegie.

A place for the 'industrious and ambitious' as Carnegie called library patrons.

Devastatingly simple -
until you try to write it, of course.

And a computer could deduce the pattern, but to produce Breakfast of Champions is another matter.

Political battles aside, public libraries are the jewels of American civic life. Nothing else in the public commons compares. Especially if you have kids.

Information obesity deadens the mind.

I wrote about Vonnegut and story shapes here; he was ahead of his time.

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I enjoyed this page of commentary more than the actual book. Always felt I should love GEB (still do), but much preferred the book I imagined would have that title to the real one.

More simply, the “narcissism” of the artist is necessary because if you don’t love your handiwork enough to bring it into the world, to believe it’s worth bringing into the world, you’ll never be an artist at all.

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Kurt Vonnegut was a genius.

As a ghostwriter for tech and business leaders, my clients often ask me about their free speech rights in our imperiled times.

The principles of free speech are increasingly beleaguered—a worrisome trend for authors, writers, and thought leaders who make their living in the