Portrait of Oscar Wilde with Cane

All Art Is Quite Useless

This is the preface to the Oscar Wilde book, The Picture of Dorian Gray.  I read this book a while back and revisited it recently.  Remembering how much I enjoyed the preface and how I wanted to publish it last … Continue reading

Seems fitting for Winter Coming

I recently started my second Alain de Botton book, “The Art of Tavel.”  The first was “The Architecture of Happiness.”  It left a pretty favorable impression on me, so I decided to get another one of his books the library. … Continue reading