13 March 2009 | Philly Skyline
I’ve been reading D.T. Max’s profile of the late novelist David Foster Wallace, which appeared in last week’s New Yorker. Wallace apparently struggled — in his writing and in his life — to come to terms with what felt to him like an increasingly vapid and seemingly inane American way of life.
22 February 2009 | Philly Skyline
Of all the skyline images in Philadelphia, perhaps the one that hangs on the second floor of the Rosenbach Museum is most achingly familiar — and not because the tallest building is a slick, bulky glass tower that rises above a wide plaza.
24 December 2008 | Philly Skyline
Coming down from the Ben Franklin Bridge the winter city greets us, a night scene rarely so jeweled.
16 December 2008 | Philly Skyline
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the group that PennDOT chief Allen Biehler chairs, says that Pennsylvania has assembled 319 projects worth a little over a billion dollars. That’s the 16th largest amount.
10 December 2008 | Philadelphia City Paper
Now, part of that city, the city of language, of reading, searching, observing, of writing and listening, is dying. Robin’s Bookstore is closing. I bought my copies of Berg’s poetry books at Robin’s, and there kept an ongoing affair with James Baldwin.