Truly, the streets of my town are so filled with folks with Elvis Presley and Ann Margaret smiles that you might think that you're on the set of "Viva Las Vegas."
Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books
Is Going Rogue a good book? Who knows? Who cares? Generally speaking, books by politicians of any ideological persuasion have the shelf life of a grape.
Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
I can clearly see my house, or the beginnings of my house, in the far background of a 1903 postcard of the First Christian Church in Berryville, Arkansas.
Daniel Krotz | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
Deaf and near-deaf people such as myself operate in a world I think was best captured by classical Chinese painters. Their pictures have no middle distance: we see figures in the foreground, and we see mountains in the far ground, but what we see in the middle is left to the imagination and must be perceived.
Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.29.2009 | Living
All the holy books say that the end of time is the beginning of time. The physicist Stephen Hawking says that time is a figure eight. And a local high-schooler I know doesn't know what time it is.
Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books
The message of Bleak House is that a lawsuit is the end of reason and not as we presuppose, the beginning of reasoned argument.
Daniel Krotz | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living
Fifty years after I found myself begging in London, I continue to find poetry useful.
Daniel Krotz | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living
The single piece of advice I give to a prospective collector is that if a book makes you cry, collect it. I suppose that's why I own nine copies of The Sun Also Rises.
Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living