Managed to crawl on my belly through the ghastly trenches of the last hundred pages of “Officers and Gentlemen” over the weekend. What a dreadful, conflicted, nonsensical read! To triangulate the novel’s problems: it portrays the mentally-unstable absurdities of war in a stiff, dry manner that shows pathetically when placed next to Heller’s brilliant depiction […]

As part of my “doing the work of three people” adventure today, I decided to give myself the lunch hour of three people. Like my forefathers before me, I hunted and gathered at the Peter Street Deli, dragging General Chicken back to the cave of the Snail office where JVL set upon and devoured it. […]