In Honor of the Oscars, 2022—from “Freaks of the Industry”
“The real Anti-Christ is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.”
The Inca Discovery of Europe
How could it possibly get better than this? Than an America without the tears of the Indians, than a Europe without the murder of the Jews, than a cup of Aztec cocoa?
Yesterday’s Burdens: America’s Forgotten Ulysses
Yesterday’s Burdens deserves a place in the pantheon of great modern American novels, beside Miss Lonelyhearts and The Sound and the Fury.