The Selected Ballads

While reading Javier Marías' three-part Your Face Tomorrow , I didn't realize that the main character/narrator had appeared in some ...

Much as I enjoy baseball and, in particular, Cardinals baseball, I really really would not want to be a baseball beat reporter. Here's o...

Earlier this month, I took a free tour of Columbia's Computer Music Center (formerly the Princeton-Columbia Electronic Music Center ), t...

1 Ives playing Ives - a decidedly lo-fi recording, but Ives brings a certain I-don't-know-what to his own composition ("The Alcot...

Google Maps has been acting up lately, at least for me. One result was this map, improbably superimposing Chelsea over the entire United Sta...

I finished the final volume of Javier Marías' Your Face Tomorrow over the weekend. I'm definitely not done thinking about it, but I...

Perhaps the most interesting find on my most recent visit to the Jazz Record Center was a mid-sixties Sonny Stitt-Bunky Green session calle...