Archive for February 2009

Relaxing With GOOD and ReadyMade

Posted to Magazines on the topic of Writing on 25 January 2010, with 1 comment so far.

Four authors from GOOD and three from ReadyMade, of whom I am one, have teamed up to write a special section in GOOD’s Winter 2010 issue. The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down is online now, and if I say so myself, it’s a fun read.

Modern Art

Posted to Art on the topic of Quotes on 24 January 2010, with no comments so far.

Two quotes I liked from Adam Gopnik’s article about van Gogh’s ear in the January 4 edition of the NYker. (Incidentally, I didn’t know before reading the article that van Gogh was notoriously, maybe even annoyingly voluble; I am curious now to read some of his letters, which seem to be available in Penguin Classics [...]