January 2008 Archives

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For an ongoing conversation and news reports about arts journalism, go to the blog of the National Arts Journalism Program, here.

This will be a blog, if it is a blog, about the arts, or more exactly my response to them. Whether I wander off into speculations about other matters, we shall see. I'm a baby blogger. And if the word "blog" means what Sarah Boxer suggested in her nice piece in a recent New York Review...

I was born in Washington, D.C., spent two years in Berlin right after the war and was raised in San Francisco. I listened avocationally to a lot of pop music pre and post the advent of rock & roll in the 1950's but then...