At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos.

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.

At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.