by John Berryman Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatingly) “Ever to confess you’re bored means you have no Inner Resources.” I conclude now I have no inner resources, [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Richard English on How to Handle Terrorism
Posted By Zócalo On September 22, 2009
Richard English is a professor of political science who has been studying the Irish Republican Army since the mid-1980s. His latest book, Terrorism: How to Respond
Alain de Botton Writes from Heathrow
Posted By Zócalo On September 20, 2009
In the literary equivalent of Run D.M.C. singing about their Adidas, last month, Heathrow Airport hired Alain de Botton to write a book based on spending one week in residence at Terminal Five. The airport plans to give away 10,000 free copies of the book to those passing through its gates, but for the rest of us, A Week At The Airport: A Heathrow Diary
Eating Poetry
Posted By Zócalo On September 20, 2009by Mark Strand
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
The librarian does not believe what she sees.
Her eyes are sad
and she walks with her hands in her dress.
Eric Morris
Posted By Zócalo On September 18, 2009
Eric Morris was a professional actor as a child, working the theater circuit around his Illinois hometown. In sixth grade, words of praise from a novelist perhaps put him on the path to writing. In sixth grade, he wrote a letter to Joseph Heller, who replied with a handwritten letter. “He said, ‘Eric, you might want to be a writer one day and you’ll probably be a good one,’” Morris said. After a stint writing for TV, Morris switched to studying transportation and writing weekly for the Freakonomics blog.
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