appreciation

Gopnik on White

March 07, 2012 21:41

I offered some admiring remarks the other day about EB White.  Here now is his spiritual legatee Adam Gopnik with a fuller appreciation: White, for me, is the great maker of the New Yorker style. Though it seems self-serving for me to say it, I think that style was the next step in the...

An Appreciation

David Seth Michaels
February 20, 2012 03:22

Your Bloguero's father passed away on on Friday, February 17, 2012. He was 92 years old. Today he was buried in New Jersey, where he was born, next to his wife. The following is an appreciation of him.When my brother, Arthur, and I were small boys, my father, Melvin, used to take us to Weequahic...

The adeptly delivered thank you

Allison Wolf
December 21, 2011 18:48

The gift of thanks is precious.  This morning I had the opportunity to listen in on a thank you voicemail message from a client to a lawyer I know.  The lawyer had sent over a holiday gift basket to the company and a senior member of the executive called to express his thanks.  His voicemail...

Isabel Archer Confronts Her Destiny

September 26, 2011 23:02

If the 19th Century novel has a dominant theme, it  must be "disappointment."  Over the last couple of days I published excerpts that show us how, variously, Nikolai Rostov and Tertius Lydgate find that the world is a more complicated place than they thought it to be.Perhaps a more...

Tertius Learns some Unfortunate Truths about Himself

September 24, 2011 00:18

Yesterday I copied the excerpt from War and Peace in which young Rostov finds that the world is a more complicated place than he had thought. Here is another whom we first meet bathed i his own self-regard, and who learns that the world is a more complicated place than he had supposed: Tertius...