Category: Books
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Some Quick Thoughts on Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
You know those books where you start reading and there, in the very first pages, is a phrase you just have to underline or copy out? It’s so perfectly done, you need to honor it. But then you keep reading, and just a page later, there’s another perfect sentence. And then another. Now you’re underlying something…
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Digging in the Stacks: False Nationalism / False Internationalism
This is the first post in an occasional series I’ll be doing called Digging in the Stacks. I’ll write about books I find fascinating. This piece was originally written for another website I used to manage. False Nationalism False Internationalism (herein after“FNFI”) by E Tani and Kae Sera is a cult classic of the American hard left. Originally published in…
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Totals for the Week Ending 1.25.2014
Run Miles for the week: 27.5 in 4:33:46 Run Miles for the year: 106.5 Projected total miles for the year: 1495.1 Weekly/Daily averages to reach 2k run miles 39.4/5.6 Run Streak: 1 (15.5/15.5) Number of runs that were one stupid mile: 0 Days until I beat my old run streak: 113 Prospect Park loops for…
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Book Nerds: Richard Prince
A series on interesting book collectors and readers. Richard Prince is among my favorite of contemporary artists. His Marlboro Man changed the way I thought about art and his autographed photos remain among the high points of New York clever school of art. Prince’s work is now amongst the most expensive by a living artist.…
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2015: My Reading Goals
As I wrote earlier this week, 2014 was a banner year for my reading life. I read more books than I have ever read in a single year and I finished one of my long-term reading objectives – to read all the plays of Shakespeare. I suck at running, but on this reading shit, I’m…
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2014: My Year in Books
I’m still not really sure how this happened, but in 2014, I read 52 books. I’ve tracked every book I’ve read for the last 26 years, and 52 books is a record. I’m sadly proud of this. A couple of things certainly helped. First, I finished a long-term goal of reading the complete works of…
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Diet Failure: More thoughts (and a confession) on antelopes and diets
Last week, with great pomp, I declared that I was going to try to turn myself from an ox into an antelope. When I wrote that, I meant it somewhat facetiously. I know you can’t turn an ox into an antelope and I know I am never going to have the body composition of Ryan…
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The Books I Read in 2012
Attention conservation notice: this post is long and has nothing to do with working out. I have kept a list of every book I have read I have read since I was thirteen years old. Yeah, obsessive record keeping didn’t start with my running log. Below is a list of every book I read this…
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Thaler and Sunstein’s Nudge
Nudge Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein In my final year of law school, Nudge was the book that was under every policy wonk’s arm. It’s not surprising that the khaki’ed masses of Du Pont circle wanted to read the first popular book explaining the policy implications of the findings of behavioral economics. In Nudge, Richard…
Milo and the Calf 