In my previous life as a blogger, I wrote about things that jumped up and hit me that day, that week, that month – so it is that I report here in my very first post at this most promising blog, that…
The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature was Edith Wharton in 1921, for her novel An Age of Innocence. Addressing what is, and is not, classic, Wharton wrote: A classic is classic not…
During a break in arbitration hearings in New York a few years ago, I took a side trip to the American Museum of Natural History to meet Robert Carneiro, the museum’s Curator Emeritus of South…
