Summer camp with Earps, 1883 in Hunter’s Hot Springs…or is it?

Look familiar?  I found this at the BBC, but I don’t know the source. I liked Kevin Connolly’s take on the photo, though he does not identify its provenance.  I’ll […]

Kushner and Kirschner together again….sort of…..

Coming soon to Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida — a great place to visit in February! — is Arlene Hutton’s Letters to Sala, based on my book, Sala’s Gift. […]

Ultimate word cloud….try Wordle! Oh no! there went another hour!

Podcast: Reading Little Dorrit on the iPad; or, I read Dickens FIVE WAYS

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 […]

Better than the last LOST: San Francisco in 1906…but maybe not better than 24.

I share the common opinion that LOST lost it after the first year, though I have remained sort of loyal for all these years.  But not with the devotion I […]