From Anil Dash. I’ll just give you step one: Be raised with access to clean drinking water and sanitation. (Every tech billionaire I’ve ever spoken
Dismantle the Sun is now listed at readerscircle.org, a website that connects book clubs with authors like me. How fortunate that I am an author like
Today would have been my Dad’s 93rd birthday. Venice took this brief film on my Dad’s 90th birthday, and I thought I’d throw it up
Only yesterday I was making a few suggestions about what the Summer of Long Knives cover should be. Basically, I suggested a theme and left
Ah, Gore Vidal, you got a little weird at the end, but when you were on, you were magic: In the Sistine Chapel, Gore Vidal
So Over It #11 is now so over. The answer is Okeha Castle, which was among the inspirations for Jay Gatsby’s residence in East Egg
Rebecca Makkai over at the Ploughshares blog surveyed writers about questions they’re always asked with a view towards suggesting more compelling alternatives, and it’s true
Because I don’t have HBO, I was just starting to catch up with the show on iTunes. I’m in the middle of the first season,
Charles Krafft had me asking the question of how far artists can go round the twist before screwing up impressions of their work. Now comes
19 years ago, I saw Peter Gabriel live at the Tacoma Dome, where he did a version of “Solsbury Hill” very much like the one