Author: Dan Hull
Low income Duke students
NYT is worried Duke is running out of these. When I was at Duke, low-income students were always willing to do errands […]
“We live in a world that never sleeps”: Blawg Review #65, 7-10-06.
We live in a world that never sleeps. Most mornings, lawyers at my firm get e-mails from people in all manner of […]
Flaubert: Standards.
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce […]
#7 USNWR
So cool. My high school was #197. My law school way up there. And Dook is #7. Am so blassed. No whit […]
Romain Rolland: Real Life
There is no joy except in creation. There are no living beings but those who create. All the rest are shadows, hovering […]
Tell a story
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. — Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Portrait of […]
London on writing
You can’t wait for inspiration; you have to go after it with a club. “” Jack London
London on writing
You can’t wait for inspiration; you have to go after it with a club. “” Jack London
Borges’s El Aleph: A story like no other
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space. – Hamlet Act 2, Scene […]
H.G. Wells on Editors
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft. —H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
Labor Day Encore: Love, Labour and Legal London.
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: Think Like a Client. Help Control Costs.
Rule 8 is Think Like the Client–Help Control Costs. The 2006 Explanatory Note for Rule 8–we reluctantly decided that an Advisory Committee […]
Great Slackoisie Moments in American Drama: David Mamet.
Blake [Alec Baldwin]: Nice guy? Good father? –Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet
In Praise of Structure.
For a long time I’ve thought that American business schools and the training programs of global and often publicly-traded companies do a […]
Storytelling
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. — Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
The Prisoner of Chillon
My eighth grade English teacher at the Indian Hill, Ohio school system was the late Lynwood Van Aken. He introduced me and […]
Brokaw was right: All life is junior high.
“All life is Junior High.” Retired network TV journalist Tom Brokaw said that. He was right. How did they find so many […]
Barham, Canterbury, Kent, England.
O famous Kent What country hath this isle that can compare with thee? –Michael Drayton (1563-1631), in Polyolbion I’ve been here several […]
Disraeli on Books.
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are […]
Doing Amsterdam with Aunt Ruthie and Uncle Bob.
Travel Tip: Special Dutch Travel Note if you are walking the city early one morning with your older but always cheerful Aunt […]