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Why Battlestar Galactica is So Frakking Great
Monday June 2, 2008
One of the perils of editing a journal of high culture (and publicly lamenting the dumbing down of the culture generally) is that people assume I’m an art snob. Few seem willing to say this directly to my face, but a couple of the more candid folks out there have told me....
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Funeral Narratives
Friday May 30, 2008
When my uncle died last February, the local priests were out of town for a conference, so my family called on a deacon to preside over the funeral. We hardly knew what hit us....
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Sunday in America
Thursday May 29, 2008
One of my favorite books is Number Our Days by the anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff. It is a 1978 ethnography of elderly Eastern European Jews, who gathered at a Venice, California senior center. Myerhoff’s “subjects” rapidly become her questioners (“So what do you want from us here?”)....
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No Keys in Poetry’s Doors
Wednesday May 28, 2008
In a post a while back called “Ars Poetica,” Michael Capps quoted from Czeslaw Milosz’s poem, “Ars Poetica?” Mike chose a couple stanzas that express Milosz’s misgivings about his work and his surprise that any of it—indeed, any poetry at all—can be an agent for good in the world....
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Pearls
Tuesday May 27, 2008
Yesterday afternoon, I received a call from my father that I’ve been dreading. My grandmother, his mother, had suffered a heart attack sometime on Tuesday and had been rushed to the hospital. She had been stabilized, but they had discovered that she was now in congestive heart failure. They had drained the excess fluid off her heart, and for the present, she was resting comfortably....
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