
A few years ago on Ebay, I bought the 1961 edition of Holiday magazine with Flannery O’Connor’s essay “Living with a Peacock” to donate to the library collection of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home here in Savannah. Today I noticed…
Good news on this hot Friday afternoon. LNG is liquefied natural gas, which is created by submitting natural gas to temperatures close to absolute zero. Plans to reactivate a loading facility at Elba Island (those big tanks hold LNG brought…
The AJC announced today that the paper will publish a three-part series next week looking at claims regarding the long-proposed, much-studied, and much-debated Savannah Harbor Expansion Project. I have written a lot on the subject, and was one of the…
Click here for my Man About Town column today at SavannahNow previewing tonight’s Savannah Music Festival appearance of Pink Martini. And a few clips:
From today’s Washington Post obituary for Adrienne Rich: Rich published more than a dozen volumes of poetry and five collections of nonfiction. She won a National Book Award for her collection of poems “Diving into the Wreck†in 1974. In…
If you’re interested in the cultural and financial ramifications of the housing bust, this Q&A with Robert Shiller (of Case-Shiller) is absolutely worth a watch. He notes that we could be in a long Japan-like slump and that we could…
I have posted before about the research of Eric Klinenberg into the growing number of households of one — adults who are living along largely by choice and who are tend to be more social in many respects than their partnered peers.
Tonight, Ray Suarez had an excellent segment/interview with Klinenberg: ‘Going Solo’: What’s the Appeal of Living Alone?