P, conducting his virtual seminar on American lit in Paris, announces that he is finished with Thoreau and is about to suggest to his students that they read Huckleberry Finn. Whatcha think, he asks me. I think we have not…
To start with I got up late, just for the pleasure of hitting the snooze button 74 times. It’s wonderful when you push it, you stretch out, and your toes crack. Heaven must be something like that. I made myself…
Returning to my e-pen-pal P, with his American lit seminar in Paris, France, I write him, okay, if you insist, Henry David Thoreau is a great American writer, and his insights into our frenetic materialism — and much besides —…
