Learning the Hard Way: On John Updike’s “The Alligators”
The plot of John Updike’s short story “The Alligators” seems simple enough. Adolescent boy thinks he hates adolescent girl and torments her; b...
Category: writing
Comment on Neal Stephenson’s “The Diamond Age:” Hackworth, Authorship and Philosophy
Subject to change when I reread the book. IT IS POSSIBLE to conceive of knowledge as reflecting an eternal order, a way things should best be done. Knowledge in...
Meals (short story)
Meals The air was cold when we broke up. That night she had said she was never going to be ready to have children, and as she inhaled, I could see the twinkle i...
Puppy Love
Note: This story is also from a while back. 2001 to be exact. And yeah, it’s girly. Oral exams are the 27th of this month, btw. Puppy Love 9.05.01 Ashok K...
Eastern State Penitentiary
Eastern State Penitentiary – photos by Paul Drozdowski This is not a study of decay as much as a record of what has decayed. Over and over in these photos...