Monthly Archives: December 2008

List-making

By Administrator | Published: Monday, December 29, 2008
My write-up of favorite books of 2008, topped off by Zachary Lazar’s extraordinary Sway, is up over at Newsday. The longer and more pressing list, though, is the one with the books I haven’t gotten to: Farewell Navigator by Leni Zumas 2666 by Roberto Bolano, translation by Natasha Wimmer Netherland by Joseph O’Neill Pictures at [...]
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The Pause and the fist: Harold Pinter, 1930-2008

By Administrator | Published: Thursday, December 25, 2008
From the New York Times obituary: The stage direction “pause” would haunt him throughout his career. Intended as an instructive note to actors, the Pinter pause was a space for emphasis and breathing room. But it could also be as threatening as a raised fist. Mr. Pinter said that writing the word “pause” into his [...]
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Dock Ellis, 1945-2008

By Administrator | Published: Saturday, December 20, 2008
Dock Ellis, who famously pitched a no-hitter while on acid, passed away yesterday. “Former major league pitcher Dock Ellis dies at 63,” Los Angeles Times
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Leakage

By Administrator | Published: Friday, December 19, 2008
Some scattered thoughts after finishing, or rather, tearing through Susan Sontag’s Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963. Like others, I was transfixed. There’s something about how Sontag thinks of the mind that I found kind of haunting: “I must not do all those things so that I will not know these horrible moments when my mind [...]
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