10.27.2011 Uncategorized By the Book: What’s occupying writers nowadays There is a wonderful new website called OccupyWriters.com that has an ever-lengthening alphabetical list of writers who are in support of Occupy Wall Street and a few meditations on...
10.07.2011 Uncategorized By the Book: 1 book, 2 plays and how they add up September’s book club selection was ‘A Beautiful Mind’ by Sylvia Nasar, the biography of John Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematical genius. I felt as though school had started and...
10.06.2011 Uncategorized By the Book: We may be living in the most peaceful time in the existence of our species. If numbers and statistics could be made to sing alleluias, then perhaps we could hear the good news trilling out of two new books by distinguished academics, Joshua S....
06.21.2011 Uncategorized By the Book: Satisfying results of cookbookkeeping The big box book store in Riverhead has cookbooks everywhere, and each one you pick up is more colorful than the one you just put down. They’re all over...
06.06.2011 Uncategorized By the Book: Light reading? You won’t find it here Events pile up and tend to obliterate each other as time passes. There was a huge earthquake and tsunami in Japan and yet now that Bin Laden has been...