Indeed, through internet sites like Project Gutenberg I can read now some of the greatest works that humans have ever created! It is of course, ultimately up to us what we are to do with all of it - even if the decision is to have a machine “decide” for us.

I state all of this in this post only with the empowerment of hindsight,in the attempt to move towards giving an account in prose of my life

To live in one’s own time is to inhabit a world where we encounter and live with aesthetics that were largely others’ ideas and preferences.

"I think that our desire to make history about the present all the time actually kind of robs it of something. We miss the point of just...

"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer; ...

August is, of course, a central month in the Summer. In the past year I have been organizing all of my personal effects, mainly...

As my roots are in a style that I would call philosophical: there really isn't any way to avoid such a quality in these blog posts even...

Our podcast host, Mitch Hampton, explores the August blog post through he lens of 1976 beach memories and the film, "Lifeguard"

Seeing a film in a cinema with a live audience is a sacred space. It is the essence of the origins of storytelling.

Author and reporter Gay Talese reads a newspaper in New York City, in 1982 “I think that virtues are real. I think there are good things...

“One of the things about this time that is really hard on me is that temperamentally I really only like the quotidian and the small and I...

“I was woken up by my parents on the morning in March when the Russian Revolution occurred, rather early. And we went onto a balcony. And...

“At Bennington the self was a creation; the life was a kind of performance art.” Jonathan Lethem

My Journey With Productions and Representations Past and Present

Every single aspect of the arts is inextricable from and intimate with how each of us learns many different kinds of things in the world...

I have both written and spoken here and elsewhere about my concept of the snapshot. One of the predominant, perhaps incessant matters is...