Hard Work Makes Easy Reading

When I Was A Graduate Student, The Leading Spirits At Harvard Were Interested In The History Of Ideas.

John Updike Is Always Fun. And One Of My Former Students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, Another Former Student.

The Survival Of Artistic Modes In Which We Recognize Ourselves, Identify Ourselves And Place Ourselves Will Survive As Long As Humanity Survives.

It's Amazing How, Age After Age, In Country After Country, And In All Languages, Shakespeare Emerges As Incomparable.

Life Without Literature Is A Life Reduced To Penury.