On a July trip to Namibia, my friend took about 150 “selfies.” I shot two over 10 days, for a lifetime total of three. He posted his favorite image from our African adventure on Facebook, adding it to the 109 selfies already sitting in his profile box. I showed my two photos to a handful of friends, sharing them in person, my picture in their face.
You’d think, rightly so, that Malcolm and I sit on opposite sides of the selfie fault line. Read More...
“Many plants are being built right now — auto plants — in Michigan, just like I said. They’re being built in Ohio, they’re being built in South Carolina, North Carolina, they’re being built all over and expanded at a level that we’ve never seen before. Cause I said to Japan, Germany and others, ‘Sorry, you’ve got to come here and build plants, otherwise we’re going to have to make it very tough on you with tariffs. Read More...
Al Alvarez, a British poet, critic and best-selling author who championed the work of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, wrote a provocative study of suicide and explored his own risky pastimes in books about rock climbing and professional poker, died Sept. 23 in London. He was 90.
The cause was viral pneumonia, said his literary agency, Aitken Alexander Associates.
Mr. Alvarez, who sometimes wrote under the name A. Alvarez, cultivated a reputation as a swashbuckling adrenaline seeker as well as an accomplished poet, novelist and literary critic. Read More...