Gotham Diary:
Essays
19 January 2012
Today at the DBR: The notional undertaking is to compare and contrast two collections of essays. The real motivation is to see what everybody’s talking about without feeling foolish if it’s dumb. PS. It is already not dumb. Although, a perfect world, it would have been John Jeremiah Sullivan’s book was entitled Special Topics in Calamity Physics, not that other one.