Quote for Today: T. C. Boyle
I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only something you get at school as an assignment. …
Quote for Today: Jarod Kintz
A window—it’s more entertaining than TV. Just ask a cat looking out, or a man looking in on a life he desires. ―Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE Public …
Play of Shadows: Two Forms of Asian Shadow Theater and Their Descendants
In much of Asia there is a tradition of shadow theater, also called shadow puppetry or shadow play, an ancient art in which characters are fashioned from leather or paper …
Quote for Today: Michael Chabon
Yet entertainment–as I define it, pleasure and all–remains the only sure means we have of bridging, or at least of feeling as if we have bridged, the gulf of consciousness …