From Matthew Brady and the Civil War through, say, Robert Capa in World War II to people like Malcolm Brown and Tim Page in Vietnam. There was, seems to me, a kind of war-is-hell photography where the photographer is actually filming from life.
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Nothing really changes: the individual's ability to project his message or throw his weight around remains minuscule.
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I just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books.
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Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports.
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If the bus driver is black, I thank him... when I get off at my spot, whereas I would never think of doing this if the driver were white.
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When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.
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It's true of so many fiction writers that I much prefer the essayistic work they did, whether it's David Foster Wallace's, or John Cheever's, or Nathaniel Hawthorne's.
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Good poets borrow; great poets steal.
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My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-talkers in the National Basketball Association. He's not really bad. He's only pretend bad - I know that - but he allows me to fantasize about being bad.
