The Constant Conversation

I've been blogging up a storm on the collaborative Constant Conversation, the adjunct blog of The Quarterly Conversation. Bookmark it. Or, just read what I write:

Look to the Margins

Credit Where It's Due

Interventions

Book Review: The Country Where No One Ever Dies

I wrote this for Words Without Borders: http://wordswithoutborders.org/book-review/ornela-vorspi/ I don't know.

Metropolitan (Shuffle)

Lying on the floor with the dust bunnies and dirt weasels, I finally started reading Fran Lebowitz's Metropolitan Life and laughing with an abandon usually reserved for the failures and insecurities of my friends.

Also, in concert with, and to compliment the phrase "dust
bunnies," people should note also the "dirt weasels" and "dander
shrews." Also, perhaps, "filth foxes."

I need to vacuum.

Money is never yours. It represents value, and you generate value. You move money, extract from it some approximation of the value you put into it, and then it leaves you, like a child all grown up.