Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
You may have noticed that my column runs on Sundays, while it used to run on Thursdays. This means that it's no longer in the same section as the comics. Not that I read newspaper …
Man, Diana Abu-Jaber's next book won't be out for another year. To tide me over, I reread my interview with her from last year. Do you watch television at all? I kind of watch vicariously …
The business-y reports we have to write for my Corporate Finance class got to me when I was rereading P. Larkin's "This Be The Verse". The first two lines are "Executive Summary," the second half …
Are these the lessons of Auschwitz? What else must I be sure to recognize? Our moral hearts, like our physical ones, are weak and prone to disease. If we acknowledge this and determine to exercise …
I miss Frances every day. Today I read a few of her old weblog entries. A student today said she can tell that I like the class. I'm glad she thinks so. I'm glad she …
Jon Carroll makes coffee and spins an awesome column out of it. I went back to Northern California for a week, for the first time in eight months, and drank booze with my editor and …
I generally enjoy Steve Yegge's blog posts; you can find lots of adoring swooning to that effect in my archives from the past year. Recently he posted some thoughts that weren't out of the ordinary …
India-centric comic books. I've now read an issue of The Sadhu (interesting) and a collection of the first few Indian Spiderman issues (Brian K. Vaughn has nothing to worry about there). I'll try out Devi, …
Some great posts on Crooked Timber recently: "I space object!", a validation of my use of "flatmate", UK vs. Britain vs. England, hilarious self-parodying corruption defense, and an explanation of the current Middle East crisis. …
Want to hear a horror story about control freak managers? ...The engineers were placed out of the loop regarding what was happening in the standards committee and when they finally agreed on a standard, our …