Magic.

Just before I left for Chicago, I popped into Get Lost Bookshop and bought The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies for something to read on the train (and, as it turned out, during the three hour delay at the station at La Plata, MO.)  I was delighted to discover that one of the characters in the first novel, Fifth Business, …

Please Switch Off Your Book

I wrote in this post about my mixed feelings about the Barnes & Noble Nook – which I eventually returned.  I know that the emergence of this new format is more or less inevitable over time, and while I was in New York I went into an Apple store and played with an iPad, which was irritatingly impressive – but …

In Praise of Pork

Far too much talk of turkeys, lately, so here’s an apt little homage to my favorite food.  Not, I should add, that I’ve been suffering from any noticeable swine deficit over Thanksgiving. We’ve just come back from a brief but fabulous trip to D.C. to visit some wonderful friends who broke our hearts this summer when they moved away from …

Not Funny

OK, I know this is a “cartoon”, and that it is therefore supposed to be “funny”.  But this isn’t funny.  This is just the way it is.  Ask my wife. Thanks to the New Yorker for again not suing me.  (The day I get a cease-and-desist letter from them, I’ll know I’m getting somewhere.)