We review books (kind of). Click to read The Shooktown Review of Books, by Matthew, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

I apologize for the title

A long walk about music criticism, context, and the album I've listened to the most in the last six months (and also John Steinbeck)

A long walk about music criticism, context, and the album I've listened to the most in the last six months (and also John Steinbeck)

Nowadays, if you wish to seek the wisdom of past ages—to look for wisdom or help from Socrates or Machiavelli or Abraham Lincoln—there is ChatGPT for

Nowadays, if you wish to seek the wisdom of past ages—to look for wisdom or help from Socrates or Machiavelli or Abraham Lincoln—there is ChatGPT for

Nowadays, if you wish to seek the wisdom of past ages—to look for wisdom or help from Socrates or Machiavelli or Abraham Lincoln—there is ChatGPT for

James, Nagel, WordleBot

James, Nagel, WordleBot

How Nabokov helps me think about living among lies

How Nabokov helps me think about living among lies

Columbia University on November 1, 2022 I learned of   Columbia University’s surrender   to   Trump’s extortion using $400 million   in fede...

I apologize for the title

Deborah Eisenberg's "Your Duck Is My Duck," Art, and Rich People

Pondering a book I found at my grandpa's house when I was ten

An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring; Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know, But leechlike to ...

Pondering a book I found at my grandpa's house when I was ten