When Everything Now Is Exactly Enough

After dinner we drove the short distance from Urban Belly to the United Center for the Arcade Fire concert. First … More

A Species of Hunger Native to the City

One night not long ago my wife and I attended an Arcade Fire concert at the United Center in the … More

Today may be one of the last nice days before chilly weather sets in, so I got up from my … More

Christy Wampole ventures a reading of Roland Barthes' scarf à la Barthes. The Barthes scarf is a particularly readable and … More

This isn’t a best of list so much as a list of texts and experiences that are still with me … More

Tim Parks tries to debunk the myth, to which I’ve always subscribed, that genre fiction can serve as a ramp … More

The new LA Times website went live today at 2 AM Chicago time. I managed the project team that built … More

Last week the whole world mournrd the death of Gabriel García Márquez, even Mia Farrow, so I'll add my own reflections. … More

A couple of weeks ago I was in Los Angeles. Because I was there for business I didn't get to … More

This space has been quiet the past few weeks, but I should be able to start posting again this week. … More