Weird piece in NYT on private schools. Though expensive ($40,000 or so a year), they can't cover their costs by tuition -- donations mu...

Weird piece in NYT on private schools. Though expensive ($40,000 or so a year), they can't cover their costs by tuition -- donations mu...
The site is simple to use, just sign in with Twitter via Oauth and then your off. Once logged in you can do the following tasks. You can m...
I'm reading Gordon Leff's Heresy in the Later Middle Ages. The phenomena described are terrifyingly familiar - the malaise which af...
Reading an interview of Christopher Tolkien which appeared in le Monde last month. French readers, it seems, meet Bilbo and Frodo Baggins o...
"You've no idea how much email I get telling me how wrong every single thing in the book is. There are a lot of very specific thin...
Every oral-sex seminar, “every masturbation how-to session, every tip I heard on how to stimulate the anus — each of these seemed to be mock...
Part of a series begun in World War II for American GIs going abroad, A Pocket Guide to Vietnam was intended to introduce them to the custo...
Was checking in on Twitter with the usual shame and self-loathing, when what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a retweet from Anatol S...
The stalker came again and rang the bell at the house door for a long time. I sat silently at my desk in case someone let him in and he came...
I got an email from David yesterday. He has been having a book copyedited, and had had to explain the meaning of "best text": I m...
When I first started blogging I was young(er) and naive. I linked blithely away, confident that whatever I linked to would always be there....
A while back I read a post by Sarah Manguso on the FSG blog: How to Have a Career: Advice to Young Writers. There were points that could h...
In learning languages, at first everything is repulsive and burdensome. If one were not encouraged by the hope that, after having accustom...
Was rereading David Parlett's History of Card Games today. I've come across critics who say morosely that, while people often SAY a ...
BEHAVIOR OF YOUNG CHILDREN UNDER CONDITIONS SIMULATING ENTRAPMENT IN REFRIGERATORS Behavior of young children in a situation simulating entr...
I wrote to [his American publishers] expressing (with moderation) my dislike of the cover for The Hobbit . It was a short hasty note by ha...
After the failures of the Pamela sequels, Richardson began to compose a new novel. [ 1 ] :73 It was not until early 1744 that the content ...
Scott goes home. He gets a thing of bacon out of the fridge. Fries four or five slices. Butters two slices of Wonder Bread, pla...
He had good reason to fret. Signs that Microsoft would be missing the boat in the next decade were already emerging. That very moment at M...
Cathy and Cosma both feel that knowing specific programming languages is not essential. To quote Cathy, "you shouldn’t obsess over som...