Learning Hannah Arendt

September 25, 2018 ~ The Longest Chapter

Ken Krimstein delivers a vivid account of Arendt's life and work in "The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt." It helped me to better understand this 20th century complex thinker in a graphic (“comics”) treatment that’s creatively on the mark.

Ian Frazier turns 40. Huh? Make that 58.

May 26, 2009May 26, 2009 ~ The Longest Chapter

The New Yorker, May 18, 2009, published a poem by Ohio author Ian Frazier claiming he's turning 40 "in just a couple of days." Of course, Frazier, a humorist, is spoofing the reality of 58. He was born in 1951 and graduated from Harvard in 1973.