Who are you?
Do you mean this in the literally literary, or in the metaphorically metaphysical, sense, Ms. Koromilas? My name, for your information, is Omar Clew. I am an anagram, a mammogram, a telegram with your name and DOB on it! I am the one that descends upon you in the darkest depths of your […]

What interests me about all the noise surrounding the Antikythera Mechanism is the question of what would have been, I mean what would things be like now, what would the world look like, be like, had the technology that produced this mechanism not been lost.

Jo Marchant on Nature.com articulates the question:
I’m also interested in finding […]

Julian Barnes writes in The Guardian about going back to read Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin, because the play was about to open at the National Theatre. He finds that 150 years after it was written, the novel — about two lovers who kill a husband and by killing the husband kill their own desire and […]

Mark Twain said: “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
So, what’s the possibility of finding your missing, and now dead, sister wedged, upside down behind the bookcase in her bedroom? Well, hardly a real possibility (I mean WHAT are the odds?), but according […]

1. Who are you?
I find that I have less idea what the answer to this question is as I get older. No wonder people go senile and forget everything. Actually, I’m looking forward to forgetting who I am and everything about my life; sounds like bliss.
2. What do you write?
Very little because I am an […]

Interesting story on Murakami in The Prague Post online. This quote on the writing process caught my eye:
Each book he writes represents a journey inside himself, he says. “I’m just sketching what I saw in the darkness,” he says. “Sometimes it’s fun, [but] sometimes it’s dangerous, so I have to protect myself. That’s why I’m […]

After Rick Moranis’ Op-Ed in the NYTimes, November 22, 2006
The average American home now has more television sets than people … according to Nielsen Media Research. There are 2.73 TV sets in the typical home and 2.55 people, the researchers said. — The Associated Press, Sept. 21.
I HAVE two kids. Both are […]

for filmmaking is a metaphor for life.
Emotional article in Slate by Dana Stevens reminds us of what Altman said during his acceptance speech for his lifetime achievement award (78th Academy Awards earlier this year):
 
I’ve always said that making a film is like making a sand castle at the beach. You invite your friends and you […]

I only yesterday discovered Frieda Hughes’ new column in The Times, “Poetry with Frieda Hughes,” in which she writes about a poem she likes.
The current column showcases “Time is on your side,” a poem by Galway Kinnell (Selected Poems, Bloodaxe Books).
The poem begins:
Wait, for now.
Distrust everything if you have to.
But trust the hours. Haven’t they […]

1. Who are you?
To be honest, I’m not entirely sure. I am a Canadian who has live most of her life in the United States. So I figure this makes me North American. I am a daughter and a sister and a wife and an Aunt I am hopeful to one day be a mother. […]