Let Mark Twain Love You

This morning, one of the first things that happened when I got out of bed was this: I discovered that Alan Rickman died. From cancer. At age 69. It reminded me of a day earlier this week, when one of the first things that happened when I got out of bed was this: I discovered…

Reading at Rockefeller

I got a new video camera this spring. One of the first things I recorded was a reading by Neil Gaiman at the University of Chicago campus. I hadn’t been down there since I was a kid, when I wanted to go to the U of Chicago because it’s where Indiana Jones went.Anyway, Gaiman’s book…