Chance Cogitations

I recently read The Name of the Wind  by Patrick Rothfuss in about three evenings, so I guess I was enjoying it. Although the book is int...

The Eisner Awards were announced over the weekend, and it's exciting to hear that Marjorie Liu is the first woman to win an Eisner for...

I recently enjoyed the first issue of a new series from Image Comics by writer Joe Henderson and artist Lee Garbett. So far, it's an int...

I just finished reading Madeline Miller's Circe , another Parnassus Book Club pick, and I really loved this book. I read it in just a fe...

I've enjoyed my trimester in Ireland. I climbed to the top of a round tower in Kilkenny (too tall, 8/10, would not climb again), saw 23 ...