I’m not really one for New Year’s resolutions (I sometimes plan to floss more frequently and invariably fail), but this morning I read about Laura Miller’s New Year reading plans, and took to heart her suggestion to join an online reading challenge. I was immediately drawn to the Chunkster Reading Challenge, since I’ve been planning… [Read more…]
January 6, 2011
In my last post, I expressed my feelings about Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Eating Animals, which was published over a year ago, and is therefore maybe not the most pertinent subject I could handle. But he did give a talk to Google a few days ago, and, as always, got me thinking about my relationship… [Read more…]
December 1, 2010
You may have read Natalie Portman’s review of Eating Animals for the Huffington Post last October. And you may have been disconcerted by her use of the English language. For instance: “I remember in college, a professor asked our class to consider what our grandchildren would look back on as being backward behavior or thinking… [Read more…]
November 30, 2010
In the 1980s and ’90s, landscape architect Anne Whiston Spirn made a name for herself restoring life to a dilapidated West Philadelphia neighborhood. Recognizing that municipal neglect for socio-economic plight in the Mill Creek area was compounded by disregard for environmental problems, she sought to empower local residents by educating them on the interrelated histories… [Read more…]
January 6, 2011
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