It is a truth universally acknowledged that a former English Major, in possession of many sagging shelves, has not only read but rather enjoyed the…

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Sliding in on a conversation with some younger friends, I bid my time and knew my place. It’s weird to be this age, when yes,…

File under forgotten texts. Hermann Broch was a Austrian author from the first half of the twentieth century. He came to writing somewhat later in…

It was sometime back in the early teens of our current century that I realized something was off. Placing a half-hung morning order at a…

As a Gen-X music listener, it’s pretty hard not to be a fan of U2. At some point they caught your ear, an inescapable part…

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Knocking around odd-ball shops near Golden Gate Park I spied a copy of Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential. “I’ve never read that,” I said to my…