This week's serialization is full of parentheses. After a relatively sober (if nonetheless "surrealistic") opening chunk, t...

I have decided to serialize Girl School , a novel I have been working on for some time. To be more precise, I have decided to serialize it...

And now, the second in my  triptych of animals in difficult circumstances : "Raccoon's Delight." Last month, right around E...

Late last night, I received the below from a reader who identified herself only as an Englishwoman living in Toronto. She asked me to publis...

A few days ago, while reading a Marshall McLuhan interview in Understanding Me , I came across this: I am resolutely opposed to all innovat...

What follows is an original translation of Serge Gainsbourg's song "L'homme à tête de chou," from the album of the same n...

Means and Ends When a close friend of mine—pictured top-left—read The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as an undergraduate, it left little impres...