Laxness is Dependably Frustrating in Independent People
After hating The Great Weaver of Kashmir without being able to dismiss its quality, I read Independent People and didn’t know what to think. My...
A Hard Dog’s Night
So I have this memory of John Denver sitting on a cabin porch in a Rocky Mountain sunrise, eating GrapeNuts cereal. I’ve spent unsuccessful hours...
The Orphan Device
Writers are always reading, and usually on more than one level. I still remember the shock I felt the first time I saw a typo...
I Cried My Eyes Out at Seattle Opera’s La Bohéme
Seattle Opera’s production of La Boheme made me cry. I love this opera about bohemian artists in Paris for several reasons. One is that it...
There’s No Place Like Home
My family watched The Wizard of Oz recently. My sense of the movie has changed every time I’ve seen it, but my response to one...