Sammiches
by Adam | Monday 9 March 2009
The day started sunny and we weren't looking for trouble, my friend and I went all the way uptown near where he used to live. It was the second nicest day of the year and there was traffic blocking...
The Sartorialist
by Adam | Sunday 8 March 2009
When asked how the residents of the Fulton Houses, who are (by some standards) the permanent citizens of difficult economic times, are handling the recession, James shrugs
Free Range Nonfiction Reading Series
by Adam | Friday 5 December 2008
Thanks to everyone who came out and heckled my subpar jokes. Here's the last piece I read. An oldie but a goodie. The Blue Man My house here in France is covered in spiderwebs, but I don't dare touch...
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Saturday Afternoon
by Adam | Sunday 28 September 2008
Based on an essay by Edmund Wilson. In Jackson Square, the spidermums, spotted in Newport ash, are blooming like supplicants. A pack of cougars, celebrating a second marriage at the Magnolia bakery, are flaunting plastic diadems. In Central Park,...
The Novel vs. The State
by Adam | Monday 15 September 2008
I telegraph mockingbird laughter back and ask him a last question.
“How are you?”
This is a question of paradox. It is the question of both an acolyte and an equalizer, something you'd ask an immortal mortal and his other, something that would be considered odd as part of any other valediction.
“I’m well,” he says. “Thank you. I’m very well.”
Book Review: Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
by Adam | Wednesday 20 February 2008
Philip Roth has not yet left the building. We will note that Roth, growing more in his later years, has already taken pains to prepare us for the inevitable. His alter-ego Nathan Zuckerman has ushered us through the epic...
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Quick Notes...
by Adam | Saturday 16 February 2008
While I've been buried in schoolwork and otherwise unresponsive...I had a few things to share. #1: What winter looks like from my desk: #2: What American flags in the clearance section of Bed Bath and Beyond look like: #3: The...
Tocqueville in Birmingham
by Adam | Sunday 5 August 2007
Baseball in America is alive and well in Alabama. Or maybe America in baseball is alive and well in Alabama, where outside of Birmingham, our national pastime still thrills, if only as sideshow to a more salient national pastime,...
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Panegyric L'Waffle House
by Adam | Friday 3 August 2007
Waffle House is, at the exact same time, an unabashed and guilty pleasure of mine. It's a difficult paradox to explain, but I will try my best (especially for Northeast and West Coast readers). Three hours past Washington, D.C.,...
Oh My God Whatever Etc.
by Adam | Sunday 15 July 2007
Saturday we were talking about getting old and it's funny because we're not but these conversations are the conversations had until it's finally true. Saturday's idee fixe (and the idee fixe of most Saturdays) on aging came out of spending...
Don't Write Your Second Book: A New York Week
by Adam | Tuesday 26 June 2007
It all started with Edward Albee... Well, it actually started with a walk home from work. Or it started with the 76 degree June day that prompted the urge to walk. It was a straight shot down 5th Avenue (of...
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The Chariot Castle
by Adam | Monday 22 January 2007
For a newcomer, the rook appears like the least formidable piece on the back row; there is the misconception that the order of pieces from center [king through queen through bishop through knight through rook and forward to pawn]...