In an effort to encourage folks to whip up some decent eats during this economic downturn, here’s an improvised recipe for vegetable corn chowder. It will probably set you back about eight bucks or so at the market (assuming you already have flour, butter, and olive oil in the kitchen, like mo...

It is a happy necessity which obliges wisdom to do good, whereas indifference with regard to good and evil would indicate a lack of goodness or of wisdom. And besides, the indifference which would keep the will in a perfect equipoise would itself be a chimera, as has been already shown: it would off...

Bloggers are never supposed to start a piece with a scene on the subway because it reveals either the frugal reality about the way they live or a tendency to pad out an essay with needless name-dropping. Nonetheless, I’m going to. Because I’m really concerned about Maureen Dowd’s t...

My review of G. Xavier Robillard’s Captain Freedom appears in today’s edition of the Chicago Sun-Times , along with many other interesting pieces, including Mark Athitakis’s profile of Jesse Ball....

(This is the fifth of a five-part roundtable discussion of Eric Kraft’s Flying. Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four can also be read. Many thanks to Eric Kraft and all the participants for their time and careful attentions.) Eric Kraft writes: Thank you, Ed, for organizing this round...

(This is the fourth of a five-part roundtable discussion of Eric Kraft’s Flying. Part One, Part Two, and Part Three can be read here.) Edward Champion writes: “There was beauty below them, inarguable and unique — many fine things built for the contentment of hardy men — and there...

(This is the third of a five-part roundtable discussion of Eric Kraft’s Flying. Part One and Part Two can be read here.) Kathleen Maher writes: Regarding the comparison of Flying to Proust (whose “Swann’s Way,” I almost struggled through); Nabokov (whom I admit enjoying); and...

Eric Kraft appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #268. Eric Kraft is most recently the author of Flying. This is the first of a three part conversation with Kraft about all of his Peter Leroy books, an epic of more than a million words which Our Young Roving Correspondent was insane enough to read. These...

(This is the second of a five-part roundtable discussion of Eric Kraft’s Flying. Part One can be read here.) Matt Cheney writes: I’m going to throw another topic out there for discussion, because I’m only one third of the way through Flying and I’m struggling. Here’s my...

(This is the first of a five-part roundtable discussion of Eric Kraft’s Flying.) Introduction This week marks the release of Eric Kraft’s Flying, a collection of three novels that include Taking Off, On the Wing, and the previously unreleased Flying Home. This trilogy forms the latest se...