Monday, May 28, 2012

Paul Fussell, Scotch, a Birthday & the Sophomore: A Shaggy Dog Story

In May 2012, just as I was leaving for Memorial Day weekend in the South, fate decreed it was time for Paul Fussell's obituary to run. The Guardian had a very fair assessment of his award-winning The Great War and Modern Memory, including both John Keegan’s "an elegaic commentary" and Philip Larkin’s...
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Monday, May 14, 2012

The Adventure of the Speckled Wall: Sherlock, You're Needed

"On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement...
              

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Everyone, Meet Floria and Sidney

I had two interesting professional engagements last week, thanks to Floria Lasky and Sidney Hillman. Each had a substantial career that included service to the larger community, and each had been such a force in their own fields that after their deaths colleagues took the time and effort to create something...
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