Anecdotal Evidence

A blog about the intersection of books and life.

Sunday, February 01, 2026

'Try to Make Something New'

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Almost the only thing I ever write down so I don’t forget it is the grocery list. Sporadically I kept a diary when younger but each time the...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

'But in Them There Is a Different Look'

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Berating people seldom works. Mostly it keeps the berater amused. Few of us revise our thinking or behavior because someone tells us we shou...
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Friday, January 30, 2026

'A Line or Two Worth Keeping All Too Rare'

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The superb American poet X.J. Kennedy died this morning at age ninety-six. Dana Gioia writes in an email: “I don’t have to tell any of you...

'Under the Same Architrave'

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Architrave entered English in Shakespeare’s day by way of Latin and Italian. It describes the bottom portion of an entablature, the horizon...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

'The Morning Sun Discovers an Opossum'

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O ur dog has gotten too old to catch opossums. In his prime he could charge across the backyard, leap and grab the marsupial crawling along ...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

'The Old and New Imperatives of Wit''

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“[P]erhaps poetry and romance are as plentiful as ever in the world except for those phlegmatic natures who I suspect would in any age have ...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

'It Is Common to the Whole Country'

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Like most middle-class Americans I have lived a sheltered life. My needs and many of my wants have been satisfied. I was in a few fist fight...
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Monday, January 26, 2026

'Pure Farce Covers a Far Greater Field of History'

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In a 1951 letter to Bernard Berenson collected in Letters from Oxford (2006), the English historian Hugh Trevor-Roper writes:   “I, unlik...
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