You'll all be begging for him to come back after next fall's premier season, when two scenes into a new show you have no idea where the main characters all went to college.

There's a conspiracy theorist who drives all over the country in a van with big decals on the side of it claiming that Stephen King killed John Lennon. There was a tag line "come together, over this" printed on it too, from what I remember.

Is that Cuba? I mean Toki, is that Toki?

I don't doubt that he cares about these topics or think his popularity is in any way unearned. The rationale for using words like "unfortunately" when describing gladwells place as a prominent public intellectual is that at another time you wouldn't have to settle for bland but approachable. I don't even really…

He was enthusiastic and tipped well.

Not always, I wouldn't recommend starting with Imperial, but he explores interesting stuff with a pretty open mind. Hes written about prostitutes, life on Indian reservations, hobo life, kabuki theatre, his trip into the quarantine zone around Fukushima, Afghanistan during pre US unrest and in each case it's first…

I agree that Oreilly might not fit, due to his own reluctance to embrace the role of the intellectual, but I think it's more a case of him masquerading as an anti intellectual to get through to an audience with a strong skepticism towards all things elite. But, whichever way it breaks, it's a discussion of a label as…

I think, unfortunately, the foremost public intellectual in the United States right now is Malcolm gladwell, which owes to the balance struck between publicity and intellect when applying that label. Him or Bill Oreilly, so it's a sad state of affairs.

There's a lot of money being dumped into pigs with zero natural immune systems, in hopes of using them to grow transplant organs that won't require persistent immunosuppressant therapy after installatio.

It's about a guy who's eating until he grows infinitely large, and the chaotic response of the universe to that unusual phenomenon.

It's about a guy who's eating until he grows infinitely large, and the chaotic response of the universe to that unusual phenomenon.

DFW addressed dictionary introductions in Tense Present, which is included in Consider the Lobster and available online for free.

DFW addressed dictionary introductions in Tense Present, which is included in Consider the Lobster and available online for free.

I was aiming for happily incoherent. More failed writing. I suppose I'll take out my frustration on the review of the new Justin Cronin.

I was aiming for happily incoherent. More failed writing. I suppose I'll take out my frustration on the review of the new Justin Cronin.

As someone with unfulfilled literary aspirations I would like to add: Screw this guy. Critical and commercial success is for sellouts and anybody who reads for pleasure is doing it wrong.

As someone with unfulfilled literary aspirations I would like to add: Screw this guy. Critical and commercial success is for sellouts and anybody who reads for pleasure is doing it wrong.

Chabon writes very entertaining middlebrow literature.  It's the kind of stuff that should get a great grade on a pop culture website.  Greatness in literature isn't going be defined by a grade. How many classics have a star rating printed on the cover? The grade is for quick reference, and it's not like the review…

Chabon writes very entertaining middlebrow literature.  It's the kind of stuff that should get a great grade on a pop culture website.  Greatness in literature isn't going be defined by a grade. How many classics have a star rating printed on the cover? The grade is for quick reference, and it's not like the review…