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The Book Codger’s Lament

image of sterile room

Ras posted a video last week of Samuel, the remarkably expressive 3-year-old who recites Billy Collins’s poem, “Liturgy.”  This gave me a cherished opportunity to tease ol’ Rasoir for having forgotten that I posted the same video here last August.  … Read more »

The Sphincter Cam and Other Predictions

A moment of truth

We’ll get to that sphincter cam in a minute, but first some background. A week or so back in a post on the fallibility of pundits, I invited 317am readers to join in the Pundit Game and make some long-term … Read more »

Kaze: The Death of Fiction? Not So Fast, My Friend.

Somewhere in my files I’ve got an old New Yorker cartoon of a doctor breaking the news to a patient on the examination table. The doctor tells him: “I’m afraid you’ve got a novel in you that has to come … Read more »