Word: boredness
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I went to Montreal with Ben one weekend, and to New York with more roommates the next. I was spending lots of time with my amazing new girlfriend, Catherine. Still, I felt weird, antsy and a little bored. Most of my friends had become thesis-writing hermits, while I, too...
Just as "Trashed" tops the "shitty job" genre of anecdotes, "My Friend Dahmer" blows away ordinary I-knew-them-when stories. Taking it for granted that you know about Dahmer's crimes, Derf dispenses with them. Instead, with chilling details he provides a personal portrait of the high-school-age...
Biggs is likable, if a little bland, as Benjamin. But he has to wade through Johnson's clumsy dialogue, which makes Benjamin's pre-Vietnam anomie far too explicit. ("Those people are grotesque," he complains of his parents' friends. "I want simple, honest people.") And maybe only a Brit could...
Is there more to it? An Oprah producer recently admitted that the book-club shows garner lower ratings than regular shows. A former Oprah associate says Oprah is a serial sharer. Having shared her emotional life, her diet and her reading list, she is done with the book thing. "I...
Downing begins in 1961, when Shunryu Suzuki, a quirky but brilliant monk in Japan's Soto Zen lineage, hung out a shingle in one of San Francisco's bohemian neighborhoods offering instruction in zazen. Unlike Rinzai Zen, which uses intellectual methods like koans to free the mind from itself, Soto...