Merge Book and Booking Merge
Amy said she felt like she was rolling the dice when she got me Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records just a couple days before Christmas. She knows I’m a geek, and she saw this book about some indie label that had been around for 20 years, so she impulse-purchased it. I was excited [...]
A Way of Ending
“Wallace became the chronicler of a world where it was ‘tough’ to be human, but not impossible. This was the subjective world of his readers, themselves animated by an anxious consciousness of their limitations and contingency. It was an article of faith for him that the educated person still came to serious literature for answers [...]
Good Choice
It’s taking me far longer to get through The Lay of the Land than the other two Frank Bascombe books, but passages like this keep me going: “A lot of life is just plain wrong. And the older I get, the more clearly and often wrong it seems. And all you can do about it [...]
Warner Brother
“Even back in the 1980s (“my” day), when greed ostensibly was good, there was still a sense that the best and the brightest didn’t go to Wall Street. Lots of people did want to go, of course — there was a palpable thrill in the air when the investment banks came to recruit on campus [...]
