Monthly Archives: November 2008
Patty’s Got a Gun
I have a short review of William Graebner’s new book about Patty Hearst in Newsday today, and here’s a link to a clip of the surveillance footage of the SLA robbing the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco on April 15, 1974.
John Leonard, 1939-2008
It’s a sad day for the semi-colon. John Leonard passed away last night and I am deeply saddened by the news. I loved reading him. I don’t watch much television, but I always read his column in New York Magazine. The reviews he wrote there and in Harper’s, the New York Review of Books, and [...]
Waiting for November 5
My girlfriend, Liza, saw this yesterday on Nevins Street near the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn.
It’s about time