Happy Fourth of July….. I read it in the New York Times…. Wedding 2010 has arrived!

NPR updated my answer to the question I asked last year: Do I love reading or do I love books? Here’s the Chronicle of Higher Education original article, and the one I just published on the iPad: Reading Dickens Four Ways (2009) My iPad Day (2010) Check out this Judy Jetson illustration that accompanied the [...]

I had to leave Macaulay Arts Night to see the new Broadway show, ENRON, and I wish I had stayed. Enron was boring, didactic, frantic, and way too long. Macaulay Arts Night — dynamic, exciting, creative to the max.  Painting, performance, poetry, video, graphic design.  Fabulous cookies. Congratulations to the Macaulay Arts Night team and [...]

Paul Harding’s Tinker, a novel published by the Bellevue Literary Press, won the Pulitzer Prize last week. Two summers ago, I interned at that small publication within the walls of Bellevue hospital. Each morning, I would walk down First Avenue, past the man on the corner with the red turban around his head who was [...]

Bruno Salazar was traveling with two other Macaulay@City College seniors in Costa Rica last week.  They were there to volunteer as tutors in an orphanage, and then they continued on for a few days of touring, before a catastrophic accident on an ATV left Bruno with a severe spinal cord injury that may leave him [...]