by Jeffery Battersby | May 4, 2015 | Asides
…tests are not measures of anything other than one’s ability to operate in artificial environments under forced and arbitrary time constraints in a sweaty room proximate to one’s tormentors, victims, crushes, exes, old best friends and frenemies....
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 12, 2015 | Asides
Crazy. Saw him with Beau Willimon talking about House of Cards last spring in DC. NY Times Media Columnist, David Carr, Dead At 58 If you haven’t seen his recent column regarding Brian Williams, you should. Spot on. UPDATE: This was Carr today talking with...
by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 27, 2014 | Asides
When she began writing, Ms. James chose the detective-story form because she enjoyed reading such novels and because she thought she would have a better chance of getting published if she wrote in a popular genre. She told The Paris Review in 1995 that she “thought...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 3, 2014 | Asides, Featured
Consider buildings. Although you may not be an architect, you can be touched by a graceful space. The kind of space where you close your eyes and feel the gentle hand of the architect reveal itself in the way sound and air moves around you. Try it sometime. Go to your...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 12, 2014 | Asides
At the intermission, we are in the green room, everyone jabbering a mile a minute because there is so much energy in the theater that night. Except for Robin Williams. He is standing quietly against a wall, a look of discomfort etched on his face. Onstage, you...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 12, 2014 | Asides
How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am. NY Times Obituary
