Monkeying Around with Typewriters

Many of you will remember the episode of The Simpsons when Mr. Burns gives Homer a tour of his mansion and shows him a thousand monkeys typing on a thousand typewriters which, he claims, will soon produce “the greatest novel known to mankind.” When he checks one monkey’s progress, he says: “‘It was the best of times, […]

Pauper Envy

A Truck Full of Money: One Man’s Quest to Recover From Great Success by Tracy Kidder Random House 2016, 288 pages Book Review by David Hayes October 1, 2016 The National Post The noted literary journalist Tracy Kidder has made a career out of documenting the lives of other, often ordinary, people rather than himself. […]