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Is a Blog Better than Having Friends?
I’m not sure I’ve ever bought a book with the intent of only reading half of it, but that’s what I did with Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together. The first half, about robots and relationships, didn’t really catch my attention. But … Continue reading
David Brooks and How C. S. Lewis Was Right
One of the books I enjoyed the most over spring break was David Brooks’ The Social Animal. Brooks says lots of things, and most of them well, in the book. He creates two characters and tracks their imaginary lives through … Continue reading
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Tagged C. S. Lewis, David Brooks, The Abolition of Man, The Social Animal
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David Foster Wallace and “This is Water”
David Foster Wallace has been popping up a lot lately, so much that I’m contemplating making 2013 the Summer of Infinite Jest. We’ll see. A few years ago, DFW gave a commencement address that has become quite the sensation. A … Continue reading
Absent-Mindfulness, Distance-Learning, Nicholas Carr, and the Internet
I wonder if anyone has tried to coin the term absent-mindful. Absent because I haven’t been very present here lately (some might also not very present in other places, but more on that later). Mindful because in my absence … Continue reading
Ten Years of Reading and Believing
March 2013 marks the tenth anniversary of The Believer. Originally named The Optimist, The Believer was founded by McSweeney’s with the intent to be a positive presence in the literary world. No snark here, in other words. I came across … Continue reading
Professional Sports: A Strange Source for Alienation
Bill Simmons, the head honcho over at Grantland, recently posted an intense article about the issue of performance-enhancing drugs and professional sports. The same can be said for the reader response that Simmons posted a few days ago here. What … Continue reading
Keller and the Collective Heart
I’ve not read much by Tim Keller, pastor of the Redeemer Church in New York, but I am definitely a fan of his most recent blog entry, “Preaching to the Collective Heart.” In the entry, Keller writes about how some … Continue reading
The Narrative Hope of Little Inferno
I entered the Tomorrow Corporation’s World of Goo on the word of Tom Bissell in this Grantland article on iPad games. I found it to be everything that Bissell said it was: “a more beautiful, involving, and enchanting puzzler” than … Continue reading
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Remembering 30 Rock (The Series that Reaganed)
NBC’S 30 ROCK wrapped up a seven-season run last night. It’s been one of my favorite shows for most of my time in Hawaii, and I’m sad to see it go. There’s been a lot of reflecting on the series, … Continue reading
Paperman! See All About It!
MISSING DISNEY’S WRECK-IT RALPH means you also (probably) missed Paperman, the preceding animated short. That’s a shame, and not just because Wreck-It Ralph was series of character twists and emotional turns. Paperman was everything most Pixar shorts are and more, … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 