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Take two parts vodka, one part John Hughes, one part Ivan Turgenev, one part Ayn Rand, and a dash of Marshall Rosenberg. Stir gently and pour into a hand-carved wooden cup, garnish with suicides to taste, and serve on a coaster with a drawing of Jack Kerouac’s face on it.
He can’t leave his hotel. You won’t want to.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility—a …
"A bold new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together--at work, at …
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation …
The story of an engineer who creates a device to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself reveals what …
V good
Some poetry, some insight, a whole lot of bombastic hodge-podge. Dunno what I was expecting.
“Crome Yellow” by Aldous Huxley ; 1922
A young English poet, Denis Stone, is spending some time at Crome, an …
The paradox of becoming (2008, Metta Forest Monastery)
The topic of becoming is addressed using passages translated into English from the Pali Canon.
Ray Midge is befuddled when his wife takes off with his car, his money, and her ex-husband. When credit card …
My Man Jeeves, first published in 1919, introduced the world to affable, indolent Bertie Wooster and his precise, capable valet, …
