as they get swept up in the invisible streams and eddies of human movement around the city. it’s messy and chaotic, to be sure—but it’s also incredibly effective and insanely popular. so popular, indeed, that before long, cars find themselves having to navigate their way around bikes,...
Isabelle’s father had me travel up near Trafalgar Square to pick her up. Yuck. I had actually gone there alone the day prior to visit the British Museum. God, I hated it. The station I rode to on the bus to get to the museum was next to a giant screen with shit playing in mass...
Yet, as mothers, we sometimes forget that in our relating to our adult children. When we can view them with some detachment, when our reactions to them are no longer based on expectations or being dependent on them, we are then able to love them fully and freely. Do not look at your ...
The first is to simply accept that procrastinating is part of my process. Often I’m unable to get started on a new novel because I’m not ready. I haven’t found the way in: the right voice, the right setting, the right starting point. I haven’t done enough research. All that ...
Dolphin-slippery, less wet than rather deliciously mucilaginous and tasting of Amontillado, it had the power in itself to force me, or somehow get me back, against a doorjamb, where I lolled helpless with my eyes clenched shut, in a trance of tongue.” In this selection Styron’s ...
There’s only one song out of all of them that I’m bored with and that’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again.” That’s more to do with the fact that it’s stuck on rails, because of the track. You’re stuck on that track and you can’t move it once it starts. I play it with ...
The Cars, 'The Cars' Nobody was sure what to call the Cars when their debut album came out in 1978. Pop? New Wave? Rock 'n' roll? It was a little of all these things. The band's refusal to be labeled one way or another gives their first record a buzzing energy that other arti...
The Cars, 'The Cars' Nobody was sure what to call the Cars when their debut album came out in 1978. Pop? New Wave? Rock 'n' roll? It was a little of all these things. The band's refusal to be labeled one way or another gives their first record a buzzing energy that other arti...
Blacks disagreed, saying that the government help mostly allows poor people to “stand on their own two feet and get started again.” The poor themselves divided evenly on the question. Latinos leaned closer to the skeptical view about government programs expressed by white Americans. ...
There’s only one song out of all of them that I’m bored with and that’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again.” That’s more to do with the fact that it’s stuck on rails, because of the track. You’re stuck on that track and you can’t move it once it starts. I play it with ...