Stefan Beck

A writer living in southern Connecticut, Stefan Beck has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Sun, The Weekly Standard, The New Criterion, and other publications. He also writes a food blog, The Poor Mouth.

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Why I’ll Probably Never Read “Finnegans Wake”

I have a friend who, Borges-like, reads everything. He’s long since consumed most of the…

It’s the Great Big Crybaby, Charlie Brown!

I understand that About.com has to fill itself with pointless content somehow, but this bit…

The Theory of Generational Relativity

I suspect that many readers will find this article by Mark Morford laughably alarmist. Its…

D’Souzaphony

Josh’s post about the Hitchens / D’Souza debate reminded me of Tobias Wolff on his…

A Frosty Reception

In David Lodge’s comic novel Changing Places, a British professor from the fictitious University of…

Youth in Revolt

In 1938 Virginia Woolf published Three Guineas, a feminist broadside which makes this memorably patient…

Two Americas: Ahmadinejad at Columbia, Tila Tequila on TV

I’ve watched very little TV in the past few years. Don’t get me wrong: I’m…

Lifemanship: How to Succeed at Everything Without Really Trying

In this world there are two kinds of people (among a few others, presumably): those…