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Out there in the dark.
Ooof, I can’t possibly unpack another box or shelve another book today.
So: Storytime. Then: Dozetime.
When I started at Random House,1 in 1993, and for quite a number of years afterward, until he eventually retired, I worked with, amon...
an office of one’s own
Well, hello.
It’s been a minute, as, I’m told, the young folk say.
I’ve been a bit preoccupied, as we’ve just moved, not yet even a week ago, to what I like to think of as Los Angeles proper, into a sweet little century-old house with,...
“All the lost plays of the Athenians!”
The other night, not entirely by chance (it was his birthday), I watched Alfred Hitchcock’s 1947 pseudo-noirish courtroom drama The Paradine Case, which, going in, I figured I must have seen once or twice in the long ago but quickly realize...
meanwhile, back/still in Rome
Yes I’m still reading Thornton Wilder’s The Cabala, and yes I’m still reading it at a glacial pace.
This little passage below so delighted me earlier today—had I not been holding the book in two hands I might have clapped those two hands...
into another bourn
I continue to make my way, comically slowly, through Thornton Wilder’s marvelous first novel, The Cabala, and I just this morning ran across:
She sensed the fact that there was in her something that a little prevented her making friends...
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