Transcribed from Examined Life (Zeitgeist Films), the words of Avital Ronnell. If we're not anxious, if we're okay with things, we're not trying to explore or figure anything out. So anxiety is the mood of ethicity. Now I'm not proscribing anxiety disorder for anyone. … This is something Derrida has ...
If my father were alive, he would've turned 90 years old this week. He was the youngest of six children, born of Russian Jewish immigrants—the only ...
From the marvelous Elizabeth Gilbert, in her book Committed: There is nothing wrong with a married person launching a friendship outside of matrimony—so long as the "walls and windows" of the relationship remain in the correct places. It was Glass's theory that ...
Many years ago, it was my dream to be editor-in-chief of the college newspaper. But I had to run against my best friend to get the position, and my background put me at ...
On my Facebook profile, I state my religious beliefs as "The story of your life becomes your life." After
My job as Writer's Digest publisher often leads people to remark ...
From "Slow Fade" by Arthur Krystal, about F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (The New Yorker, November 26, 2009) Fitzgerald's scripts were hobbled by the same quality that lifted his fiction above the superficial: the complicated nature of his mind. Although he came to believe that "life is essentially a cheat … ...
The curse of overactive minds I know—and so (or yet) I'm a devotee of sleep. It's the only way to escape and regenerate. So on weekends when I'm home, I amble into Coffee Emporium well into the afternoon. During a recent visit, a musician began setting up his equipment not long after I arrived. ...