profacero wrote 6 days ago: From the Geneaology of Morals: The “well-born” simply felt themselves the “happy … more →
profacero wrote 2 months ago: A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is brilliant, and better than the play or the movie. Williams’ introdu … more →
profacero wrote 2 months ago: In this self-tagging meme, which I invented before discovering that others had already done so, you … more →
profacero wrote 3 months ago: I am in New Orleans and cannot concentrate on this blog because the city is so magical. New Orleans … more →
profacero wrote 3 months ago: The Splash Award The Anxious Black Woman has given me a Splash Award. I am honored to be included am … more →
profacero wrote 3 months ago: Some time ago I taught the novel I am studying now. Its characters are classified by color according … more →
profacero wrote 4 months ago: …I was tagged by Geoffrey Philp for the 25 writers meme, in which you name 25 writers who have … more →
profacero wrote 4 months ago: The avant-garde rules! I read R.U.R., Čapek’s 1921 play, and it is brilliant. You can read it … more →
profacero wrote 5 months ago: 1. Work on one thing at a time until finished. 2. Start no more new books, add no more new material … more →
profacero wrote 5 months ago: The days are noticeably longer. I need Mardi Gras presents, and it is a whole day’s trip to go … more →
profacero wrote 5 months ago: The World That Made New Orleans both delights and instructs. So does John Pizer’s The Idea of … more →
profacero wrote 6 months ago: In this post we will discuss Neil Postman, whom I did read for pleasure, but first we will mention m … more →
profacero wrote 9 months ago: Sunday’s NYT Magazine had a number of essays on higher education and university level teaching … more →
profacero wrote 9 months ago: I thought crème fraîche only grew in France – i.e. that it was hard to make and only French da … more →
profacero wrote 9 months ago: I have begun to read Ma Jian’s novel Beijing Coma. It is famous – it has been I would li … more →
profacero wrote 10 months ago: Most of this post was written before Hurricane Gustav came into being, but these first paragraphs ar … more →
profacero wrote 10 months ago: If I had time I would read all the contemporary Chinese novels discussed in the August 4/11 Nation. … more →
profacero wrote 10 months ago: For the third day in a row I have failed to get into the Lima film festival. It is somewhat disappoi … more →
profacero wrote 11 months ago: I have at last read The Grass is Singing which is brilliant and impactante, epoch making for many re … more →