Cahiers du Moment

God help me if I was ever as wrong or ignorant about anything as Barbara Pym was about Hitler and Germany in the 1930s. Have you read the n...

kittens are all anuses and worried eyes

Doris Day died today. I read a slightly different version of this piece a month ago, at the Tuesday Funk reading series in Chicago on ...

YouTube algorithms try, and odd congruences are the norm and not particularly worth pointing out to my mind, but this one today from a YouTu...

Barbara Pym, Dorothy L. Sayers, Raymond Chandler. I read them to (their) death. A bucket full of murder, really. Dozens more coming.

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What's this Tammy show? Like Tammy and the Doctor or something? (incorrect lyrics are from one of those horrible lyrics sites, I a...

My freshman year there was a guy who lived next to me, a classic super-weird smart guy. He collected snakes in his room -- not in cages.  ...

"He and I were once ..." Viola hesitated, teasing out the fringe of her black and silver stole. "I see," Dulcie said,...

This review of Jennifer Weiner's first novel, Good in Bed (2001), was published a year after it first came out, on the now-defunct websi...

I don't know about you, but the internet often makes me think about Philip Larkin. Or maybe it's the other way around. It is in so...

I have Wonderfulness burnout. Most every new, amazing website I see (I'm not being bitchy--they are amazing) that collects similar won...

I know I'm not the only person who tends to think in increments of Laura Ingalls Wilder--generally, in life, but during this crazy win...

There is the slight feel of an accident in how  Threesome ended up a good movie. Movies that tackle primarily sex and relationships can ...

I wrote this unpublished review for the  Chicago Reader  the day after eating at Charlie Trotter's in May 2005  (a one-paragraph versi...