I received this morning the cover proof of Walt's People - Volume 6. Still about 7 weeks until its official release but I am always excited when those proofs start coming my way. By the way, here is what will have been accomplished after the release of Volume 6: Volume 1 JB Kaufman : Rudy Ising Mike...
On day 4 we got up at the crack of dawn to go on a day-long bus tour of the big island. First of all, this trip was not nearly as fun as the bus trip I remember taking on Oahu last time I came to Hawaii. First we stopped at a coffee shop for breakfast. Then we went to the Pu'uhonua O Honaunau, the...
On Uncommonly Great Books Great books have soul, and are often an acquired taste. This is a point the Nobel committee frequently insists on making. Take Isaac Bashievis Singer. The great body of his work was written not in Hebrew, mind you, but in Yiddish. Then there is always Ulysses. Acclaimed as...
Even though the Fourth of July holiday pushed the Blanton’s B Scene back a week this month, the art party promises to be bigger and better than ever. Tonight’s festivities celebrate the opening of the museum’s latest exhibit, “Exquisite Visions of Japan: Prints from the James A. Michener...
I spotted two used volumes of Will Durant’s The Story of Civilization: Volume V The Renaissance and Volume VII The Age of Reason Begins at Harvard Book Store while visiting Janice last November, and only took them out to look for something on a few occasions. (I have checked them out from library...
The Age of American Unreason is about the dumbing down of the United States in many areas: belief in creationism and in biblical inerrancy, the inability of students to locate countries on a map, widespread innumeracy, civic illiteracy, and the media's promotion of junk science, to name but a few...
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