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...show really going down the tubes? How could something so glorious fade so fast...
...didn't belong to anyplace growing up. Her father was an itinerant electrician who dreamed of being an inventor; her mother was an occasional schoolteacher who dreamed of being an artist. Both were failures at everything. But they chose to spin their inability to stick to anything as a glorious crusade against bourgeois conformity, and they dragged their kids along for the ride. In her extraordinary book The Glass Castle, Walls describes a childhood spent careering across the country, from California to West Virginia, in a succession of ever more rattletrap cars, in pursuit of increasingly implausible get-rich-quick...
When the threat was proven to be a figment of the Bush administration’s imagination, the purpose of the enterprise was switched to the pursuit of “freedom.” While normally among the noblest of aims, that glorious ideal has here been turned into little more than a fallback plan for the occupation’s public relations division. This gives us good reason to doubt the sincerity of our government’s commitment to Iraqi freedom...
...That frustrating fog of half-knowledge and misunderstanding?punctured by the rare moment of glorious comprehension?is the space Carey has set out to explore in Wrong About Japan. It's not a journey he expected to take. His 12-year-old son Charley, the kind of introverted preteen who would never deign to express interest in anything, gets hooked on anim?, manga and all things cool that are Japanese. Charley's excitement is enough to inspire his father, and soon the middle-aged literary novelist is parsing the finer points of Akira and Astro Boy. Carey is intrigued enough...
...religious, but I do maintain one religious conviction: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth and reading period. Those two glorious weeks in January offer academic salvation for those of us who were too busy (or too lazy) to read (or even to purchase) books during the previous four months. However, in spite of having two entire weeks with no class, and in spite of the frigid weather which discourages us from venturing far from our heaters, we inevitably find ways to waste our time—whether solo or en masse. Such strategies include...