Epiphanies

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The Dull Life of a Writer

August 3, 2025

Idea Murakami’s Novelist as Vocation will disappoint anyone who romanticizes the writing life. Writing is dreary work, Murakami confesses. The work novelists do is tedious, like building a miniature ship in a bottle. They are basically doing the same thing over and over: transposing some personal theme into different contexts. Click to Read...

		
		
		
		
		
		
Photos: Jack Kerouac Revealed I was a Snake

July 6, 2025

City Unable to travel anywhere without reading material, I, in emergency mode, visited the Beatnick-revered City Lights book store in San Francisco. I picked out a novel by Simon de Beauvoir, then went to celebrate with a plate of Mandarin Chicken around the corner. Click to See...

		
		
		
		
		
		
This Week's Music: "Atom Heart Mother," an Alternative Mix

March 5, 2025

Pink Almost 50 years on, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason rescued Pink Floyd's instrumental "Atom Heart Mother" from the overproduced mess it was on the 1971 Pink Floyd album of the same name. Give the drummer some. Also: Lil Nas X's new single, Sly, and other music I listened to last week. Click to Read...

		
		
		
		
		
		

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