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AUGUST ENCORE: "IN PRAISE OF BOREDOM"

Dartmouth grads expected the usual boring commencement speaker. But Joseph Brodsky spoke about boredom itself, aka “your window on time.”

BOOK-ISHThe AtticAugust 14, 2025Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize, American literature, Boredom, In Praise of Boredom Comments

THE ECONOMIST AND THE COMMONS

The commons was doomed, economists said. Elinor Ostrom disagreed and won a Nobel.

TEACHERS & HEALERS, teachers & healers, DREAMERSThe AtticJuly 6, 2022Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize economicsComment

FAULKNER'S FINEST MOMENT

Shy and reclusive, he did not want to accept his Nobel in person. But he rose to the podium and lit a candle for humanity

BOOK-ISHThe AtticDecember 3, 2020Faulkner, William Faulkner, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize for Literature, Absalom Absalom, Mississippi, Oxford Comments