David MatthewsSep 20, 20215 minScribblerus InterruptusI take a break from half-baked cogitation and its attendant scribbling about surrealism and me, or some such, to recommend a recently...
David MatthewsAug 23, 20219 minBiden AwryI give Joe Biden generally good marks for the early days of a presidency that faced multiple crises from the moment he took the oath of...
David MatthewsAug 13, 20215 minThe Wisconsin Boulder AffairStudents at the University of Wisconsin struck a resounding blow against racism with their successful campaign to remove a 42-ton boulder...
David MatthewsJul 31, 202124 minRevisiting On the Road: The Original Scroll RouteI first read Jack Kerouac in 1970. I was eighteen. For the next ten years or so I was heavily into Kerouac and the Beats, reading and...
David MatthewsJul 12, 20215 minReturn to the Museum and Downtown WanderingIn that glorious interval between retirement and pandemic I regularly ventured downtown to make the circuit of the Central Library,...
David MatthewsJun 30, 202111 minThe Fire This TimeKenneth Rexroth wrote that James Baldwin's book The Fire Next Time (1963) "is designed to make white liberals feel terribly guilty and to...