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I'm thinking about re-reading Mother Night . I've gone a while without a Vonnegut fix. I pulled it off the shelf this afternoon, a...

More Hornby. This is a long excerpt from Fever Pitch in which he recounts the story of Gus Caesar, who was, for a short while, a struggling...

Nick Hornby, in Fever Pitch , sees growing up as a matter of seizing occasional opportunities: I used to believe, although I don't now, ...

My dissertation advisor sent me this quote from Harry Frankfurt. It's encouraging to read a philosopher of such stature reflecting the ...

One of the many aspects of Oryx and Crake I liked: it has a few passages that read like philosophical thought experiments. My favorite...

Last semester one of my intro to philosophy students reminded me, at a handful of points through the semester, of scenes from The Hitchhiker...

Two summers ago I decided to learn to identify some common wild edible plants. I bought a bunch of books on foraging, and by far the most u...