Category Archives: minnesota

Only One Book?

Jonathan Yardly wrote a piece in the Washington Post called ‘Gatsby’: The Greatest of Them All. He writes: “If from all of our country’s books I could have only one, The Great Gatsby would be it.”
His argument is that (among other qualities) passages from Gatsby are the most “true”, specifically:

One of my most vivid memories [...]

Quote Of The Day – 1/24/07

Somewhere along the line I picked up Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman (for some reason, I am totally blank on where or when).
I think Klosterman has some sort of rabid fan base and his bio says he is a fellow Minnesotan (on a totally unrelated note, Guy Kawaski wrote a great post about [...]