Kate Roiphe writes about changing attitudes about sex in the new generation of male writers. From the NYT Sunday Book Review, January 3, 2010.
For a literary culture that fears it is on the brink of total annihilation, we are awfully cavalier about the Great Male Novelists of the last century. It has become popular to [...]
My friend Tim Kreider has posted up his most recent column for the New York Times’ blog series, “Happy Days.”
This one’s called “Isn’t It Outrageous?” and it’s about the dark little secret– that we actually like, sometimes, the sense of being enraged.
“Isn’t It Outrageous?” by Timothy Kreider
Originally published New York Times, July 14, 2009
I was [...]
Jenny Boylan's eleventh book, FALCON QUINN AND THE BLACK MIRROR, now on sale from HarperCollins!
"You hang around our family, you learn all kinds of stuff."
August, 2002.
With President Clinton and Maine's Governor John Baldacci, fall 2006.
Edward had been my teacher at Johns Hopkins in the winter of 1986. He visited Colby in fall, 2007. As we took our leave of each other, he kissed me on both cheeks and said, "We have done well. You and I."
Jack was my professor at JHU when I did my thesis, back in the day. After many years, I can now confidently say I finally understand his definition of plot. Which is, of course, "the perturbation of an unstable homeostatic system and its catastrophic restoration to a new and complexified equilibrium."
