What I’m Reading Today
- Andrew Sullivan’s story is inherently implausible. How did an HIV-positive gay Catholic conservative from the poky English town of East Grinstead end up as one of the most powerful writers in America? Intelligent Life Magazine
- People who hated history in grade school view the subject as a collection of facts. In a certain sense they are right: Historians trade (in part) in verifiable events that no person can own or copyright… The Chronicle Review
- “I wouldn’t fuck Sandra Bernhard with Bea Arthur’s dick.” The New York Observer