My students when I ask a question about the reading

Cheers to Know Your Enemy Matthew Sitman Sam Adler-Bell and all who find themselves with a book and a beer at a bar this fine Friday happy hour

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I'm doing some writing about Walker Percy, and so tracked down a copy of the book that first got me into him—fellow admirers of the late Peter Augustine Lawler will be amused by this message about my order's fate James M. Patterson Brian A. Smith SamuelGoldman

This is very well done:

Let’s gooooooo

I went cruising with the You're Tall but I'm Standing in Front of You boys. Come for the relentless dunking on cops, stay for the trivia about cruise ships, and in between maybe learn something about the greatest film of all time, William Friedkin’s CRUISING (1980)

open.spotify.com/episode/6eBNeE…

Two incredible paragraphs about the book’s origins:

That actually should be 'most writers write some things that are bad, some good'—lower case!

My next 'Personal Archives' post on the Friends and Enemies 'stack will be about Garry Wills's 1968 book, THE SECOND CIVIL WAR, of which I have a beautiful first printing—come for the photos of my books, stay for the historical context (hint: James Baldwin makes an appearance)

New Yorker cartoon and its two worms in bed and one worm is saying “would you still love me if I wasn’t a worm?”

New Orleans’ oldest independent bookstore, the Catholic Book Store on Carrollton, closes its doors today after some 85 years.

Here’s my haul from the liquidation sale. All books 75% off, gifts 50% off, open til 5 p.m.

Norman Mailer, folks

Latest YouGov Poll

Q: Do you think that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinian civilians?

Biden Supporters:

57% Yes
15% No
27% Not Sure

I wrote an obituary for OJ Simpson. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Which sector of political opinion produces the most noxious anti-Semitism?

A few years ago, I’d have said the obsessive anti-Israel left.

Today I’m far more worried about the weird racial right.

My column in the latest issue of The The New Statesman.

newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

simply amazing

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