" . . . the Willoweses were a conservative family and kept to old-fashioned ways . . . Finding that well chosen wood and well-chosen wine improved with keeping, they believed that the same law applied to well-chosen ways." -- Sylvia Townsend Warner, LOLLY WILLOWES.
Gerald Howard
Gerald Howard
"Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous."
--an epitaph for our times, courtesy of Nathanael West
I go through Penn Station and Port Authority Bus Terminal fairly often and commuted thorugh them for decades. Shudder. In my observation there is nothing lazier or more ineffectual than a Port Authority cop. Clearly dangerous people free-range totally unimpeded.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/n...
Why is belief in the importance of objectivity and neutrality only the province of the "cultural right"? I am in no way part of the cultural right (although you well might disagree . . .), but I think they are sovereign, irreplacable values. Dispense with them and we are in Sokalville.
Dear Mr. Faulkner:
In regard to your typescript for THE SOUND AND THE FURY . . .
Donad Fagen's girlfriend told me that he actually felt he should have become a literary critic. I met and talked with him enough times to know that that was not some empty rock star conceit, it was a realistic alternative path. He was terrifically well read and articulate about it.
Gerald Howard
Ever heard of the middle, where most people live, work and believe?
Tee-shirt ready:" I traveled all the way to Wisconsin and all I got was abuse."
And maybe stop crushing so damned much on the Mitford family? (He was married to Diana, a committed fascist.)
Quote-post with an image from the first show you remember seeing on television.
On the basis of knowledge of the reality of academic biases
I'm saying the cultural right claims to be objective and neutral, and you're saying that you are objective and neutral and only the cultural left would disagree with that
That doesn't disprove my claim
