Two Interesting Reviews with a Common Thread

[lsanderson]

Opinion
What Tolkien Knew About Love
Like Henry Darger, he created an epic fantasy. Why is Tolkien remembered, and Darger nearly forgotten?

“Bilbo Comes to the Huts of the Raft-Elves,” an illustration for “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien, July 1937. Credit Bodleian Libraries, MS/The Tolkien Estate Limited 1937, via The Morgan Library & Museum.


“They Escape Again by Overpowering Guards" and "Are Seized by Pursuing Glandelinians,” by Henry Darger. Credit The Estate of Henry Darger/Art Resource, NY

By Jennifer Finney Boylan
Contributing Opinion Writer

Why I Take All My First Dates to Olive Garden
It starts with free wine samples, endless breadsticks, and keeping my expectations low.


BY KRISTEN N. ARNETT

Comments

[carbonel]

That Olive Garden piece is just weird. The writer appears to care a hell of a lot more about the comfort food (and freebies) than any possible date. Why doesn't she just go there on her own?

(I go to Olive Garden every so often, what I'd really like to be able to go to Ciatti's. That's the one I miss.)

Hard...

[lsanderson]

To publish an article about going to Olive Garden by yourself -- unless you live in Grand Forks, of course.

Re: Hard...

[carbonel]

Oh, I don't know. I should think there'd be an interesting article -- or series of articles -- in addressing the joys of the places that real foodies scorn. After all, people go there for a reason.

Re: Hard...

[lsanderson]

There is the famous one by a writer for the Grand Forks Herald. It got national attention five or ten years ago.

[minnehaha]

Am a fan of Henry Darger, and so is Grayson Perry, of whom I am also a fan.

K.