The Late David Rakoff’s “Christmas Freud”
After a long battle with cancer writer David Rakoff has passed away at the age of 47. His brillant, humorous and sincere storytelling will be greatly missed. Here he is on This American Life reading a story about being Sigmund Freud in the Christmas window display of a Barney’s department store. This episode starts with David [...]
The Psychogeography Of A Clockwork Orange
The rain had penetrated the bricks and infiltrated the electrics of my basement flat, so that when the doorbell finally rang near midnight, it was with the barely audible rattle of a drowning cricket. He was late. I climbed the stairs to the communal foyer, beyond the slagheap of unsolicited mail, the Raleigh bicycle with [...]
