Nassau Weekly

Hal Parker

  • All the Pretty Corpses

    All the Pretty Corpses

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    Cormac McCarthy has established himself as one of the great American authors of the 20th century. His magnificent Border Trilogy, comprised of All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities on the Plain, told the hardscrabble yet ethereal tale of John Grady Cole and Billy Parham as they roamed an exilic landscape of death, love,…

  • Let Them Eat Cookie

    Let Them Eat Cookie

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    Something’s rotten on Sesame Street. The particular putrefaction of which I write is not one borne of organic decay; rather, it arises from a constellation of things which would seem prima facie to signify otherwise: rosy-cheeked health, hygienic propriety, balanced-meals, and proper exercise. Yet the modern scourge of nutrition – truly a custom “more honoured…

  • C-O-O-K-I-N-G with Rebecca Sealfon

    C-O-O-K-I-N-G with Rebecca Sealfon

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    St. Paul once wrote, “The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.” Rebecca Sealfon ’05 probably would have kicked his ass.

  • Farewell, Sesame Street

    Farewell, Sesame Street

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    This is not a eulogy; it is not a ritualized recounting and remembrance of a man’s life pronounced with threnody enough to disquiet but not to deject.