A newsletter about books, ideas, and thinking about how to live.
Writer and intellectual historian. My writing has appeared in The New Republic, New York, The Point, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Commonweal, and others.
A newsletter and podcast about the writers and public intellectuals who either are key players in the American intellectual scene or who typify an important aspect of it.
I write about the Great Books, classic literature, and the contemporary publishing world.
This is a public notebook of the stuff I've been reading, thinking, and publishing recently.