Something Good #7: Dolores
“By the author of Pnin” I first came across comedian and writer Jamie Loftus when a friend recommended her podcast My Year in Mensa. Loftus joined the brainy...
Something Good #6: How to Travel Through Time
Hey. Time travel is possible. Allow me to show you how. There are actually a few different methods, some of which you’re already using. First, you are (most...
Something Good #5: Four Lives
Often when reading, researching or procrastinating, I come across a real-life character whose story fascinates or touches me in some deep way. When I can’t...
Something Good #4: Candles and a Crossword
(See below.) It had been a long and shitty week. I was going on nearly a year without having entered a cinema, a restaurant, or even a friend’s home. The big...
Something Good #3: Various Fireplaces, With Commentary
“You always said you wanted to live in a palace.” I have lately become obsessed with fireplaces, none of them my own. In the heart of a grim COVID winter,...
Something Good #2: Escapes
“The Pier With Chains,” Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1749-1750 “The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?”- Ursula K....
Something Good #1: A Good Spy
I had a friend who prized anonymity and used his unremarkable appearance to do wonderful things. I thought of him this week as I watched the topic of this...