To celebrate World Book Day about a month ago, The Independent Online asked leading British authors to name their favorite fictional characters. The result is this list of the 100 favorite fictional characters… as chosen by 100 literary luminaries. Of note is the inclusion of some of my favorite fictional characters, including Kim, […]
March 2005
Yahoo! Grows Up
I’ve been a big fan of Google since it’s inception, and I must say that they do a lot of things right: their serach is amazing, GMail is my favorite webmail service, and Blogger may just be the best free hosted blog service in the world. However, I must admit that Yahoo! has come […]
The Man Booker International Prize 2005
If there is one thing I regret in my decision to leave Georgetown University early, it was the fact that I was never able to take Reverend Alvaro Ribeiro’s class on The Booker Prize for Fiction. In the one class that I did take with Father Ribeiro, I learned of his passion for literature; […]