The most compelling blogs seem to manage a perfect balance of immediacy, regularity, and self-exposure. New York Hack and Thirty-Year-Old Secretary, two that I followed closely and are both now on indefinite hiatus, were also highly specialized, which I found appealing. These offered windows onto particular professions, a cab driver and a secretary. The latter [...]
My girlfriend, Liza, saw this yesterday on Nevins Street near the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn.
See Joseph’s Similes at Harlequin Knights.
This past April, during a short stay in Philadelphia, I stopped in at the Fleisher Art Memorial. It was meant to be a brief visit, more of quick turn than a real tour of the nation’s oldest tuition-free art school. But then I got to the second gallery of the exhibition and I stood [...]
Quintana Roo Dunne Michael, daughter of Joan Didion and the late John Gregory Dunne, died on Friday after a “lingering illness.” A photographer, Ms. Michael was married to musician Gerry Michael. She was 39.
The following is an excerpt from Joan Didion’s essay “On Going Home,” written in 1967.
It is time for the baby’s birthday [...]