I’m in Princeton, NJ, at the Institute of Advanced Studies (home to many amazing people & events, like Einstein, Oppenheimer, von Neuman, and more) for an event called Adventures of the Mind —…
I really liked a lot of Palahniuk’s earlier work — especially books like Fight Club – but lately I’ve been having a tough time with his writing. It’s all very very skilled, just not that much…
I’ve read several books about how we get our food and how we eat — books like Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, for example — both because I’m interested at a personal level about how to live…
As I mentioned, I’ve been in Aspen this week at The Aspen Institute’s Forum on Communications & Society (specifically titled: Of the Press: Models for Preserving American Journalism). It’s been…
This is an unusual week for me — I’m at the Aspen Institute sessions on the future of journalism beginning of the week (blogging to come; still synthesizing some), and tomorrow I’m heading to…
I loved this book; highly recommended. Not the most generous book ever — it’s about a family under much pressure in a state of distress — sort of The Corrections (loved it!) but with a bit…
I’m heading to Aspen Sunday to take part in a Knight Foundation-sponsored gathering on the future of journalism. It’ll be 50 or so attendees, all of whom are very accomplished and have an incredible…
I’m not really sure what I expected from my 20th high school reunion last week in San Antonio — or I guess I should say that I had expectations, just not specific ones. I think I figured I’d come…
