March 2011
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If Ernest Hemingway Had Written Yelp Reviews
Pinkberry
Category: Ice Cream and Frozen Yogurt
ONE STAR
I met a woman who said she had been to Pinkberry. “What the hell is that,” I said, and she laughed but said nothing.
Sun City Asian Bistro and Café
Category: Asian
TWO STARS
I called Sam and asked him if he wanted to come to dinner but he said he had softball practice and I said that was a damned shame and hung up. When...
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“It’s not that students don’t “get” Kafka’s humor...”
– David Foster Wallace, Some Remarks on Kafka’s Funniness From Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed
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“The basic message is that whether recovery occurs spontaneously or in a defined...”
– Jonathan Shay, Odysseus in America
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“Note the adjectives: commonplace, ordinary, usual, common. There is nothing...”
– William Deresiewicz, Solitude and Leadership
This lecture was delivered to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in October of 2009.
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Brutal Attraction: The Making of Raging Bull →
What’s interesting here: Raging Bull is a gem—it takes an emotionally inarticulate character, Jake La Motta, and shows the tensions that pull him apart. I think many of us have become used to (and maybe even become) overly emotionally articulate, but in a crippling sense (think Wes Anderson movies or Bored to Death). It’s a powerful thing to acknowledge that there is still a lot of...