Not the usual political discussion.

Elisa Camahort assures BlogHer conventioneers that the political blogging session -- which includes me -- is not going to be about the usua...

Where I was. What I was reading.

Yes, I spent some time with the NYT Book Review this afternoon. The Book Review and the acrostic. IN THE COMMENTS: JLR asked if I read the H...

"Nobody ever went broke overestimating the self-absorption of the Democratic Party."

Writes Tobin Harshaw in the NYT Book Review. I'd prefer to stock up on all those Beatles and Bob Dylan books mentioned in the previous p...

Is there anything else to say about the Beach Boys?

Bruce Handy thinks not , judging by Peter Ames Carlin's "Catch a Wave." So why is there another book on the subject? Handy h...

"He was a loving man doing his best to raise a son..."

"...away from the zany antics of the 1960’s that got in the way of doing a better job with my stepbrother, Jack. He played baseball wit...

"I don’t pretend to know a lot about what’s going on in life most of the time."

"But I had good parents who taught me that hard work and patience were some of the most important things in getting what you wanted....

Stanley Fish takes on the Kevin Barrett controversy.

Stanley Fish takes on the Kevin Barrett controversy in an op-ed in the NYT today: Mr. Barrett’s critics argue that academic freedom has lim...