The good Jew? Ozick reviews Mamet I typed an hour's worth of ruminations, lost by a finger's slip. So I will suffice to say that th...

My Big California Adventure We celebrated Niall's eleventh birthday; the little hobbit went to Disneyland's southern annex-- my wife...

Happy Birthday, Dear World! Niall and I were at the Dodger game last night, erev Rosh Hashanah 5767 . Tommy Lasorda appeared, on his natal a...

Vashti Bunyan, Tim Leary & Carthusians She's one of those cult figures, like Anne Briggs or Davy Graham for folk-trad, or Syd B...

Blogs: Parasites? The current Harper's Magazine has in its center and cover story about "Literacy in an Age of Video Games" a...

Singing out against the waterfall I did take a brief trip with the family up to Central California the last few days. Escaping heat here th...

If a Tree Falls in the Forest.... According to Daniel Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music (Dutton, 2006, $24.95), if there's no one to ...

Bart, Homer, Greeks, and U.S./us Here's a Reuters filler from today's L.A. Times , "We Know Bart, but Homer's Greek to Us....

Book Review: Light, Freedom & Song I sent this off to The Blanket ; a shorter version I posted on Amazon. A sample of my lit crit for th...

No Wonder This Review Quotes Beckett! This discouraging summary in the Sunday L.A. Times Book Review , August 13, of someone arguably more d...