Don’t miss Stanley Fish on True Grit in today’s NYT. In 1971, I talked my way into a graduate seminar that Stanley Fish was teaching at the Linguistic Institute, a summer program that hit Buffalo that year. This was a very different kind of traveling circus, one where Noam Chomsky and other luminaries were the [...]
STEP TWO: OLIVE TO ANN; DO I HAVE TO? See that beseeching look? I mean, it’s cold, it’s wet, there’s salt on the street….. STEP THREE: NO I WILL NOT! So that is what 96th street looks like? You want me to go all the up to Central Park? For my benefit? To play? Don’t [...]
Letters to Sala by Arlene Hutton will open at Rollins College on February 11, 2011…and Tony Kushner will be there a few months later. OK, so we’re not exactly on the same page, but we’re close! Either way, I’d love to see you in Winter Park Florida. I will be there as Scholar in Residence [...]
I haven’t met that many Ambassadors, which is partly why Richard Holbrooke looms large in my mind. But it was the circumstances of my dinner with him that was so memorable. I was working at the NFL and attending an exhibition game, Giants v. Chargers, in Berlin. Holbrooke was Ambassador to Germany. We had a [...]
I don’t get it — don’t they know about snow in Minneapolis? I have watched this video about ten times….especially when the snow starts shooting like rockets, just can’t get enough of it.
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