Little Guy, Little Fish

Written by Daniel Freed on August 6, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Iwas in Central Park the other day, waiting for the swimming pool to open, when I spotted an unusual little guy who was fishing in the pond. He sat in a motorized chair. Behind the chair were metal crutches with braces at the top for his arms. An oxygen tank was beside him. I think
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What Does that Bird Stand for in The Seagull?

Written by Daniel Freed on August 14, 2001. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

"I don’t care about Natalie Portman, I just want to see the play," I said. "Ah, you say that now, Danny boy," said my friend Denise, speaking in an Irish accent, because she is–well–Irish. "Wait till you see her up on the stage." Denise is a very allusive sort of person, and when she told
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How I Learned to Read

Written by Daniel Freed on February 22, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

To some extent, I may have been right. Of course I was wrong in thinking that nobody enjoys reading. But I can’t help but wonder if the reason I don’t have a good job is not, at least in part, because I failed to stick to what I learned in high school. Lots of graduates
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How Overrated Is Norman Mailer?

Written by Daniel Freed on December 7, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

"Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough," Noah Cross (John Huston) said in Chinatown. Norman Mailer’s writing hasn’t lasted quite long enough to attain complete respectability–or to become classic, by which I mean (borrowing from what I believe was Mark Twain’s definition) that which is often praised but seldom
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