Author: Dan Hull

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. — Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Portrait of […]

You can’t wait for inspiration; you have to go after it with a club. “” Jack London

You can’t wait for inspiration; you have to go after it with a club. “” Jack London

O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space. – Hamlet Act 2, Scene […]

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft. —H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

Here is the complete text of a circa-1595 comedy by Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost. You can read it aloud–or, even better, act […]

Rule 8 is Think Like the Client–Help Control Costs. The 2006 Explanatory Note for Rule 8–we reluctantly decided that an Advisory Committee […]

Blake [Alec Baldwin]: Nice guy? Good father? –Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet

For a long time I’ve thought that American business schools and the training programs of global and often publicly-traded companies do a […]

“All life is Junior High.” Retired network TV journalist Tom Brokaw said that. He was right. How did they find so many […]

O famous Kent What country hath this isle that can compare with thee? –Michael Drayton (1563-1631), in Polyolbion I’ve been here several […]

Below: Brokaw with Ethel Kennedy fundraising in 1976.

The Shepherd of the Hills, by Harold Bell Wright, 1907, 1st edition cover

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are […]

Travel Tip: Special Dutch Travel Note if you are walking the city early one morning with your older but always cheerful Aunt […]

Caravaggio, “The Lute Player”, c. 1596, Wildenstein Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Italian Baroque master (1571-1610) composed three versions […]

Around 1620, Jacques Fouquières painted Germany’s Heidelberg Castle, a famous structure in both German history and art, in “Hortus Palatinus” (below). Although […]

It’s that time of year again. Summer interns, law clerks and of course “summer associates”””i.e., third year law students eyeing a shot […]

A private social club for men and women distinguished in “science, literature and the arts,” a learned profession or public service. Est. […]

My friend Hermann, still braving Berlin after all these years, notes that “Germans Push To Introduce Espionage Etiquette Manual“. Excerpt: Folks in […]

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (1869-1916). Wanderer. Holy Man. Mystic. Drunk. Insider. Healer. Player. Stud.

Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, New York