Faithful Departed — John Updike
I read John Updike’s Rabbit series when I was 22, living with nuns in the North Bronx. Perhaps needless to say, I had a lot…
I read John Updike’s Rabbit series when I was 22, living with nuns in the North Bronx. Perhaps needless to say, I had a lot…
Jeff Whitfield shouldn’t need any help meeting women. When he talks in his calm, Kentucky drawl about his past rambunctiousness and the salvation his faith…
David Foster Wallace was a famous writer, which is not that common anymore. He wrote “Infinite Jest,” arguably the most important novel of the past…
For most of my adult life, I was what you might call, a casual evolutionist. You know, the type of person who could handle your…
Even by Hollywood standards the story idea pitched to movie executives for Pixar’s WALL-E must have sounded hallucinogenic: “So we’ve got this robot, but it’s…
Well, the Harry Potter series is over, and Harry still has not accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. Sorry if I just…
For most of my adult life, I was what you might call, a casual evolutionist. You know, the type of person who could handle your…
“You can’t be a saint,” one of my students told me, matter-of-factly. I was a bit troubled by this, as I had just told my…
While our nation’s ongoing war in Iraq is still a hotly contested issue, for many of us it remains just that, one issue among many…
It’s bad karma to steal a car from a one-legged woman. In fact, it’s bad karma to do most of the things Early Hickey’s done,…