Catalytic Narrative

None of us can know our own personal deficits. They are blind spots; lacunae , to borrow the title from a recent Barbara Kingsolver novel I ...

I know Oscar about as well as I know Superbowl. But I was alerted by the popcorn man when, the night before, I watched A Single Man , film v...

I must take a break now, from moving file cabinets up three flights. It's recycling day, and I had resolved to throw most of the files a...