Closing Time - Interesting, informative, pondering.

My Father’s Murder - Relationship and personal issues for a father and son.

Dark Family - An odd topic for an article. Not what I expected it.

Childeish Ideas - Interesting and informative. I enjoyed learning where these terms came from.

Carving the Whale - Most interesting piece and idea: that what is left out of an abridgment can say much about the novel itself.

Sedaratives - Beatts answers are slightly witty and slightly useful.

Real Life Rock Top Ten - Again, I think one needs to have a frame of reference for the people and items discussed in these to get much out of them.

Rebecca Solnit - Talks about writing without a genre, being a writer without a form, and stuff about the environment.

The Deathbed Version: A new poem - Okay, disjointed but meant to be that way.

Schema: A Classification of Shaggy-Dog Jokes - Someone wrote a book about this in the 1960s.

One-Page Book Reviews: I Am Not Sidney Poitier, King Driftwood, Amigoland, The Discoverer, Aracoeli - mildly interested, not interested (not a poetry fan), somewhat interested, more interested, more interested.

Creative Accounting: Commissioned Play - It seems like it would have been quite a bit less expensive if it had not involved researching in the community, but I'm not surprised at the cost.

Philip Zimbardo - A most interested interview. I remember watching the film mentioned in it in a college-credit psych class I took my junior year in high school.

Musin’s and Thinkin’s - Not really about clouds.

Nick Cave - Somewhat interesting. I didn't know who he was and he seemed a bit out of it.

Brad Neely - Questions about the Civil War. Quirkly answered. ( )