Woodlief, Tony

By Woodlief on Monday, February 5, 2018 I’ve not been what you would call a grateful person. The truth is, for most of my life I’ve been a...

A lot of people are talking about a short story in The New Yorker right now. A short story. If you care at all about writing and literature and...

A lot of people are talking about a short story in The New Yorker right now. A short story. If you care at all about...

I used to write much more about my children, but they’re growing despite my best efforts to conserve groceries, and they’re online in their...

So institutions are crumbling, right? The fabric of shared culture is threadbare, and our intellectual class is what you’d expect were you to put...

They say all great men have a morning routine, so I figured I ought to rush right out and get me one of those....

By Woodlief on Tuesday, October 10, 2017 I don’t know much about Harvey Weinstein, but I now bear more information about him than I ever...

Whew! Talk about a weather extremes. I’ve spoken often about the yo-yo weather in the Flint Hills. Well, recently we’ve seen roller-coaster weather in...

Of all the reasons to cry, the “Beauty School Dropout” number from Grease probably shouldn’t make my list. Yet here I sit, surreptitiously mashing...

An electric wire runs through her, scalp to sole, and this grief has stripped it bare. His despair inhabits him, and inside he is...