“I read this in a book about Bette Davis: she said that anybody who does an interview drinking alcohol is a damned fool. When I read that, I thought ‘Oh…

  I just finished JUDE THE OBSCURE by Thomas Hardy. It was the only major Hardy I hadn’t read and it was reliably sturdy and readable, written with an elegant…

1. I now tweet infrequently, and I rarely use Twitter in the way that it’s supposed to be used. The Twitter controversies that I was involved with on an almost…

Ideology versus aesthetics is something I’ve been thinking about a lot this past week in the wake of a 24 hour barrage of criticism hurled at Quentin Tarantino because of…