Underworld is a very fine novel worth reading in its bulky enterity, but the prologue is just spectacularly good. I'd call it the best writing about baseball ever except that this might faintly damn it through pigeonholing. And I say this as someone who is...
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Since SEK brought it up... Since what I have to say is predominantly negative, I should say that Freedom is not without its pleasures and accomplishments. Ruth Franklin's bottom line,.
I am slowly and not so surely pushing my way through this list, working forward chronologically. William Hazlitt's On Common-Place Critics is, in fact, quite fantastic. Now reading the Fitzgerald,.
Jose Saramago has passed. I discovered Saramago around the turn of the century, but have somehow found time to read almost the entirety of his English translated work. My favorites: All the Names The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis The History of the...