Wednesday, October 10, 2012

New Orleans and Train Wreck

The Times Picayune says: "Mixing anecdotes, arguments and his own, quirky persona, the author of “Against Happiness” delivers a provocative meditation on morbid curiosity and the pleasure of seeing others suffer."
http://www.nola.com/books/index.ssf/2012/02/when_life_supplies_lemons_auth.html

The Joy of Killing Wordsworth

My Paris Review meditation on the difficulty of loving William Wordsworth, especially in the Lake District, his home region.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/09/26/if-you-see-wordsworth-at-the-side-of-the-road/