Category Archives: Books

Interviewing someone is a skill

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Paul

We saw Paul Auster interviewed tonight as part of the City Arts & Lectures 826 Valencia Program. Auster is one of my favorite authors — very few books are as good as his Leviathan and others, from the sparse New … Continue reading →

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Children of Men

Posted on January 4, 2007 by Paul

We saw Children of Men tonight. It is unrelentingly bleak and one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long time. The handheld, jerky cinematography starts off distracting and then became essential to the storytelling. Terrific performances from everyone, … Continue reading →

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Book of the Day: Perfectly Legal (David Cay Johnston)

Posted on April 15, 2006 by Paul

Appropriately for tax season, I recently finished reading David Cay Johnston’s Perfectly Legal. The book describes the current state of the U.S. tax system; the description is of a no-longer progressive, mostly flat system which systematically offers loopholes to the … Continue reading →

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