Flogging Babel

. One of my guilty pleasures is reading outdated collections of essays and the like. Sometimes you discover forgotten treasures: A. A. Milne...

 . I am not sure what to say about The Illuminated Man: Life, Death, and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard , which I've just finished reading....

 .    A quarter-century ago, I carried a light portable tape recorder to a convention that my wife, Marianne Porter, could no...

    . Funerals are like tears. They rarely happen one at a time. Marianne and I were in Amherst for a memorial service when we got a phone c...

 .      A memorial was held for Jane Yolen in Amherst at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Which was appropriate...

 , Less than two hours before the day melts into the past, I've learned that this is Paul Linebarger's  birthday. Linebarger was a m...

 . Last Sunday, Marianne and Sean and I went to see Big Boy , which has been receiving enormous attention and tremendous crowds at every sto...