We put together a gallery of all the Montaigne in Barn Boots pull quotes. (Audiobook version here.)

Northshire Books in Saratoga Springs, NY, 6 pm tonight. Details here. (It says “presentation” but it’ll be more like “philosophical knucklehead comedy.”) Whether grabbing an electrified fence, fighting fires, failing to…View post

The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany, 6 pm today. Details here. (It says “discussion and signing” but it’ll be more like “philosophical knucklehead comedy.”) Whether grabbing an electrified fence,…View post

Montaigne said, “a wife ought not to be so greedily enamoured of her husband’s foreparts, that she cannot endure to see him turn his back.” Somehow I doubt he ever…View post

But then came Prince. And my perception of masculinity, of beauty, of my own Midwest, expanded. Expanded a tad more than was sustainable, as it turned out, but expanded. Montaigne in…View post