One day last winter, my father and I pulled into my driveway after moving a refrigerator or a stove at one of his former duplexes in Pittsfield, and he took a look at my unshoveled, unsnowblown driveway and said, “You really should get rid of that ice.”
Why? Why should I waste an hour, probably two, [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2007
I Changed My Mind. I Want to Be a Man
Monday, June 18, 2007
Cormac McCarthy and I Have Drifted Apart: The Conclusion
Friday, June 8, 2007
It’s fair to challenge my argument for The Road as an anti-war novel, but compelling evidence (to me) lies in what I consider the climactic scene of the story. The man and his son have just come back from looking for a vagabond the father initially shunned and abandoned. They couldn’t find him and presumed [...]
Cormac McCarthy and I Have Drifted Apart, Part Two
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
My pal Timothy Callahan inspires me. He’s the author of a smart and insightful book titled Grant Morrison: The Early Years, which is a literary analysis of the graphic novel and comic book master. I don’t really know how he did it, aside from being one of the closest readers and smartest people I know, [...]
Cormac and I Have Drifted Apart
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
One of the many things I try to emphasize when teaching literature to young people is that what you think of a particular piece of literature says as much about you as it does the poem, short story, essay, or novel you are studying. The crystal clear example I like to discuss is in The [...]