I’ve been reading The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Bottom, and the book itself is a joy. It’s well done literary non-fiction, an exploration of work in ten fields, everything from being an accountant to the manufacturer of cookies. I can’t begin to do justice to the literary and philosophical texture of… Continue reading the blessing of work
Category: culture
the caustic spirit of the age
Find just about any article on politics and the vicious and vacuous comments will make you wonder about the underlying assumptions of a representative democracy.
looking for significance in all the wrong places
Elizabeth Gilbert can “eat, pray, love” all she wants, but she shouldn’t be writing.
failure to launch is not a movie
It may simply be sloth and a sense of entitlement that extends adolescence far beyond its historic boundaries. But in the end growing up is a choice, not merely a consequence.
of plastic and pixels
I can download a new book in 60 seconds, without driving to the bookstore. I’ve seen the handwriting on the wall, or at least the typeface on the screen. And it looks and feels better than ever.
the daysman 