1) From the A.P.: “Nobel literature head: US too insular to compete,” Malin Rising and Hillel Italie, 30 September 2008: archived, as of this writing, here and here. (A side note: it’s a little frightening how easy it is to find commentary on this article, but how difficult it is to find a simple, complete, [...]
When we went to the hospital, we had no idea that Toby was going to be born three hours later (it was a scheduled ECV, and the Searses never mention oligohydramnios)—so the only camera we had was the one on my RAZR. It took me a while to find the time to figure out how [...]
At first, eight or nine years ago maybe, it felt like there was this great new thing: a new, digital public square where anyone could set up a soapbox, climb up on it, and start talking. A virtual Speakers’ Corner. At the start, the very earliest speakers seemed sometimes to limit their monologues almost exclusively [...]