“A good critic is trying to tell you what she has learned about herself from the reading of a particular piece of literature. A bad reviewer is often trying to tell you how smart he is by declaring whether or… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
“Then I realized that I was falling victim to one of the fallacies of the bad reviewer (whose habits we already discussed at length in yesterday’s commentary). I was wishing that Hamid had written a different book than he had.… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
“Numbers were originally abstractions, invented just to quantify things, to count rocks or people or grapes or whatever. The fact that dust floating in the air & the price of stock options behave according to the same mathematical principles, the fact that everything in the universe apparently can be described or predicted with a mathematical equation-a radical idea when Pythagoras… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share
“Time is the thing that keeps everything from happening all at once.” — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
“The problem with history is that every story has multiple witnesses, but no witness ever has the entire truth.” — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
“Barry wasn’t the kind of jerk who was nice to people only when he needed something from them. As far as I could tell,… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
“A good critic is trying to tell you what she has learned about herself from the reading of a particular piece of literature. A… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
“Then I realized that I was falling victim to one of the fallacies of the bad reviewer (whose habits we already discussed at length… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
“On some level, most novelists write fiction to create order out of chaos. When you shape a fictional story, you can tie every loose… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
