Richard Prince—Spiritual America

Sunday, December 21, 2008

"When John Wayne rode through my childhood, and perhaps through yours, he determined forever the shape of certain of our dreams."

The American psyche in fact and fiction.

On the Road

Sunday, December 14, 2008

”A cave opened its mouth in my heart. I knew what twenty grand was. I also knew what a googol, the largest number in the world, was—a hundred zeroes—but twenty grand seemed better. I saw a lifetime of unshared Happy Meals and always getting a soda with dinner at Ye Olde Tavern restaurant.” –Rebecca Curtis, “Twenty Grand”

Road trips lead to personal discoveries for parents and children.

Love on the Rocks

Sunday, December 07, 2008

"At the University of Bristol in 1972 … it was the children of bankers and managing directors who had to apologize for their upbringing, and practice roughening their too refined accents. Sheila had grown up, with eight brothers and sisters, in a vicarage in Suffolk; vicars daughters were in a category so impossibly quaint and comical that it hardly seemed worth despising.”—Tessa Hadley, “A Mouthful of Cut Glass.”

Classes collide in a tale of a mismatched couple, and a boyhood experience changes one man’s experience of love.