15
Sep
2014
Re-reading ‘The Catcher in the Rye’
On empathy, reading between the lines, and a remarkable teacher.
8
Sep
2014
Amusing Ourselves to Death – Neil Postman
Human history is littered with intellectual grumblings about media: Socrates objected to the written word, Thoreau shrugged at the telegraph, and Neil Postman railed against television.
Sep 2014
31
Mar
2014
‘Shoeless Joe’ and ‘Field of Dreams’
I’ll be honest: I fell in love with Field of Dreams long before I’d ever heard of Shoeless Joe. My appreciation for the film colored my reading of the book—a bias that usually works the other way around.
Feb 2014
2
Feb
2014
Thoughts on ‘A Sand County Almanac’
The landmark essay collection turns 65 this year and is still worth reading.