Detonations of Fist-clenched Hope

by | Jul 28, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Nicholson Baker, who will forever be canonized among my favorite writers for his short but absurdly, beautifully funny The Mezzanine, offers his thoughts on the Kindle, "an alpenhorn blast of post-Gutenbergian revalorization." This is a man who, for several...

Seventeen Syllables

by | Jul 28, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows

I am terrible with numbers.I live with a dear husband who thinks in math. He understands spaces. He reads maps. He’s quite logical. While I wander—sometimes blithely and pretty much always blindly—through the world, he navigates. The kids (at least...

All Eyes on Hot Table

by | Jul 28, 2009 | On Springfield

I admit that I don’t always pay much attention to the press releases that show up in my inbox plugging new business openings. But it was hard to ignore the press release announcing the opening today of Hot Table, a snazzy-looking new...