The Unexpected Profundity of Curious George by Rivka Galchen I’m always going to susceptible to a smart story involving Curious George, and this piece is smarter than most. For The New Yorker, Rivka Galchen explores how well the adventures about … Continue reading Outside Reading — Ever So Curious edition
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. I started my tenure as a buyer, reader, collector, and near-addict … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — X-Men #137 by Chris Claremont and John Byrne
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. When I committed wholeheartedly to superhero comics, it was difficult for … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — Swamp Thing by Alan Moore and John Totleben
“‘But thank God for Walter Winchell. Without him we’d be lost. He’s the last person on the radio to speak out against these dirty dogs. It’s disgusting. It’s worse than disgusting. Slowly but surely, there’s nobody in America willing to … Continue reading Great Moments in Literature
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. By the middle of the nineteen-eighties, I was well-versed in the … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — Action Comics by John Byrne
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. Starting to read superhero comics in the early nineteen-eighties posed a … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — What If? #30 by Bill Flanagan and Rich Buckler
“In those days, I knew nothing of what I’ve come to know of the upper classes, who seemed to my mind then either fat people in dusty wigs, half recumbent or mounted upon some unfortunate horse, in paintings with gilded … Continue reading Great Moments in Literature
As hype builds for the forthcoming release of the new big screen blockbuster Godzilla: King of the Monsters (complete with intense scrutiny of every fragment of available information), I will give over a few digital column inches to sharing anew … Continue reading From the Archive — Godzilla
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. As if predicting the indie cred craving, college rock fellow I’d … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — Crazy Magazine
“Time of a summer evening when the world is being downsampled toward grayscale. The air cooling, a change that seems to be caused less by the setting of the sun than by the fading of color; and the legions of … Continue reading Great Moments in Literature
Coffee for Two 