Art as War from The Yid by Paul Goldberg
Schtick is for Tired Business Men. Art is for the soldier.
Category: Blog
January 31: Books to read and review
Periodically on the Run Spot Run Blog I’ll post a summary of my review agenda for the website. This stack tends to fluctuate wildly throughout the year, sometimes getting as high as 10-12 titles...
When life mimics art: from Adalbert Stifter’s 1845 novella Rock Crystal
The children then tried to climb down at the place where they had clambered up, but were not able. There was nothing but ice, as if they had missed the direction from which they...
Shusaku Endo’s Silence (2016 Picador Modern Classics)
Picador’s 2016 reissue of Shusaku Endo’s Silence is quite beautiful and certainly worth sharing: with deckled edges and flaps (always nice to see in a paperback), Silence features new wraparound cover art by Yuko...
Bill Bryson on Walking in The Road to Little Dribbling
What a joy walking is. All the cares of life, all the hopeless, inept fuckwits that God has strewn along the Bill Bryson highway of life, suddenly seem far away and harmless, and the...
