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The best books I read in 2025 (part one).
The secret formula for artistic success.
Reason led Kant to compassion.
Also: Mitt Romney ought to bring back “litterbug” ads. Better than a meaningless call for higher taxes.
Booths and birds.
We have ways of making you think.
Blow molds, ceramic trees, Shiny Brite and post-war holiday cheer.
Christmas at the dermatologist’s office.
Call a cab. You’ll get there quicker.
Beginning uptown, somewhere near Lafayette Place.
Grappling with mysteries of the mind’s evolution.
That it’s praised so fulsomely is an indication of a thin market. What year is it (#602)?
Year-end ruminations on error and evil.
That is all that matters, how well we live our lives in the moment.
My life, surrounded by angels.
Analyzing my dreams at the end of a tough year.
Discourse irritant ID’d by New Zealander.
Shaped by the negative spaces that mark our existence, the empty holes define imaginary boundaries of what we believe to be true.
Message in a bottle.
The gift shop beside sky and plain.
How soil collapse and fertilizer dependence are creating the next food emergency.
The late author talks about his time working in the LAPD, collecting anecdotes on the job, and more in this interview with Open Road Media.
The author talks about his work, Ernest Hemingway, and America in this January 9, 2003 interview.
"Marry rich. And read."
The author of A Streetcar Named Desire and many more talks about his life and career in this interview aired on July 22, 1979.
The author talks to Buckley for an hour in this episode aired on February 1, 1977.
A compilation of appearances by writers on the talk show.
The actor and director talks about his new memoir The Friday Afternoon Club on CBS Sunday Morning.
The author on his retrospective anthology The Time of Our Time.
The prolific author talks to Brace Belden and Liz Franczak about grief, compounds, our horrid present, and helping other people.